How to find whether a string contains any of the special characters?

Question

I want to find whether a string contains any of the special characters like !,@,#,$,%,^,&,*,(,)....etc.

How can I do that without looping thorugh all the charact

Answer 1

Here is a short solution to check for special chars using LINQ

private bool ContainsSpecialChars(string value)
{
        var list = new[] {"~", "`", "!", "@", "#", "$", "%", "^", "&", "*", "(", ")", "+", "=", "\""};
        return list.Any(value.Contains);
}