How do I make my string compare not sensitive to (ignore) minor differences in white space?

Question

I have some tests that check strings that are displayed to the user.

I don’t wish the test to fail to due to changes in the indentations or line breaks etc. So I am

Answer 1

You can use CompareOptions:

String.Compare(a, b, CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, CompareOptions.IgnoreSymbols);

Extract from MSDN:

Indicates that the string comparison must ignore symbols, such as white-space characters, punctuation, currency symbols, the percent sign, mathematical symbols, the ampersand, and so on.