Removing duplicates from a list collection

Question

Hope someone can help me. I am using c# and I am somewhat new to it. I am loading a text file into my app and splitting the data on \",\" I am reading part of string into a

Answer 1

A simple/dirty example follows:

public List RemoveDuplicates(List listWithDups)
{
   cleanList = new List();
   foreach (string s in listWithDups)
   {
      if (!cleanList.Contains(s))
         cleanList.Add(s);
   }
   return cleanList;
}

As a warning: String.Split on very large strings can cause consume huge amounts of memory and cause exceptions.