Checking is string in one of the values of list property?

Question

I have a public class.

public class StoreItems 
{
    public string itemName;
    public string itemPrice;
    public string itemQuantity;
}

I have a list.

public List <StoreItems> itemData = new List<StoreItems> ();

The user will enter an item name and im supposed to check if that item name is already in my itemData's itemName.

My current code is something like this

if (itemData.Find(x => x.itemData.Equals(userInput))
 {
  //already in list
 }
else
 {
 //add data
 }

However, I'm getting an error saying itemData cannot be implicitly converted to bool. Tips would be appreciated

Answer 1

You can achieve this easily with LINQ.

if(itemData.Any(data => data.itemName == userInput))

Any checks all items of an IEnumerable whether they match a given predicate, or not.