Comparing two collections for equality irrespective of the order of items in them

Question

I would like to compare two collections (in C#), but I\'m not sure of the best way to implement this efficiently.

I\'ve read the other thread about Enumerable.Sequen

Answer 1

Why not use .Except()

// Create the IEnumerable data sources.
string[] names1 = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(@"../../../names1.txt");
string[] names2 = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(@"../../../names2.txt");
// Create the query. Note that method syntax must be used here.
IEnumerable differenceQuery =   names1.Except(names2);
// Execute the query.
Console.WriteLine("The following lines are in names1.txt but not names2.txt");
foreach (string s in differenceQuery)
     Console.WriteLine(s);

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