Compares the two passed lists for equality. Two lists are considered equal, if they contain equal elements in the same order. - CSharp System.Collections.Generic

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Description

Compares the two passed lists for equality. Two lists are considered equal, if they contain equal elements in the same order.

Demo Code

//   Copyright (c) Slash Games. All rights reserved.
using System.Text;
using System.Linq;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections;

public class Main{
        /// <summary>
        ///   Compares the two passed lists for equality. Two lists are considered equal, if they contain equal elements in the same order.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="list1">First list to compare.</param>
        /// <param name="list2">Second list to compare.</param>
        /// <returns>
        ///   <c>true</c>, if either both or no list is <c>null</c>, both lists contain the same number of elements, and all elements are equal and in the same order.
        /// </returns>
        public static bool ListEqual(IList list1, IList list2)
        {/*from w ww  . ja  v a2 s  .  c o  m*/
            if (list1 == list2)
            {
                return true;
            }

            if (list1 != null && list2 != null)
            {
                if (list1.Count != list2.Count)
                {
                    return false;
                }

                for (var i = 0; i < list1.Count; i++)
                {
                    if (!Equals(list1[i], list2[i]))
                    {
                        return false;
                    }
                }

                return true;
            }

            // One list is null.
            return false;
        }
}

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