Check if list contains element that contains a string and get that element

Question

While searching for an answer to this question, I\'ve run into similar ones utilizing LINQ but I haven\'t been able to fully understand them (and thus, implement them), as I

Answer 1

You should be able to use something like this, it has worked okay for me:

var valuesToMatch = yourList.Where(stringCheck => stringCheck.Contains(myString));

or something like this, if you need to look where it doesn't match.

 var valuesToMatch = yourList.Where(stringCheck => !stringCheck.Contains(myString));