How to search an item and get its index in Observable Collection

Question

public struct PLU
{ 
    public int ID { get; set; } 
    public string name { get; set; } 
    public double price { get; set; } 
    public int quantity {get;set;}
}

public static ObservableCollection<PLU> PLUList = new ObservableCollection<PLU>();

I have the ObservableCollection as above. Now I want to search the ID in the PLUList and get its index like this:

int index = PLUList.indexOf();
if (index > -1)
{
    // Do something here
}
else
{
    // Do sth else here..
}

What's the quick fix?

EDIT:

Let's assume that some items were added to PLUList and I want to add another new item. But before adding I want to check if the ID already exists in the list. If it does then I would like to add +1 to the quantity.

Answer 1

Although this post is old and already answered, it can still be helpful to others so I here is my answer.

You can create extension methods similar to List<T>.FindIndex(...) methods:

public static class ObservableCollectionExtensions
{
    public static int FindIndex<T>(this ObservableCollection<T> ts, Predicate<T> match)
    {
        return ts.FindIndex(0, ts.Count, match);
    }

    public static int FindIndex<T>(this ObservableCollection<T> ts, int startIndex, Predicate<T> match)
    {
        return ts.FindIndex(startIndex, ts.Count, match);
    }

    public static int FindIndex<T>(this ObservableCollection<T> ts, int startIndex, int count, Predicate<T> match)
    {
        if (startIndex < 0) startIndex = 0;
        if (count > ts.Count) count = ts.Count;

        for (int i = startIndex; i < count; i++)
        {
            if (match(ts[i])) return i;
        }

        return -1;
    }
}

Usage:

int index = PLUList.FindIndex(x => x.ID == 13);
if (index > -1)
{
    // Do something here...
}
else
{
    // Do something else here...
}

Answer 2

Use LINQ :-)

var q =  PLUList.Where(X => X.ID == 13).FirstOrDefault();
if(q != null) 
{
   // do stuff
}
else 
{
   // do other stuff
}

Use this, if you want to keep it a struct:

var q =  PLUList.IndexOf( PLUList.Where(X => X.ID == 13).FirstOrDefault() );
if(q > -1) 
{
   // do stuff
}
else 
{
   // do other stuff
}