string replace using a List<string>

Question

I have a List of words I want to ignore like this one :

public List<String> ignoreList = new List<String>()
        {
            "North",
            "South",
            "East",
            "West"
        };

For a given string, say "14th Avenue North" I want to be able to remove the "North" part, so basically a function that would return "14th Avenue " when called.

I feel like there is something I should be able to do with a mix of LINQ, regex and replace, but I just can't figure it out.

The bigger picture is, I'm trying to write an address matching algorithm. I want to filter out words like "Street", "North", "Boulevard", etc. before I use the Levenshtein algorithm to evaluate the similarity.

Answer 1

What's wrong with a simple for loop?

string street = "14th Avenue North";
foreach (string word in ignoreList)
{
    street = street.Replace(word, string.Empty);
}