I have an existing StringBuilder
object, the code appends some values and a delimiter to it.
I want to modify the code to add the logic that before appending the text, it will check if it already exists in the StringBuilder
. If it does not, only then will it append the text, otherwise it is ignored.
What is the best way to do so? Do I need to change the object to string
type? I need the best approach that will not hamper performance.
public static string BuildUniqueIDList(context RequestContext)
{
string rtnvalue = string.Empty;
try
{
StringBuilder strUIDList = new StringBuilder(100);
for (int iCntr = 0; iCntr < RequestContext.accounts.Length; iCntr++)
{
if (iCntr > 0)
{
strUIDList.Append(",");
}
// need to do somthing like:
// strUIDList.Contains(RequestContext.accounts[iCntr].uniqueid) then continue
// otherwise append
strUIDList.Append(RequestContext.accounts[iCntr].uniqueid);
}
rtnvalue = strUIDList.ToString();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
throw;
}
return rtnvalue;
}
I am not sure if having something like this will be efficient:
if (!strUIDList.ToString().Contains(RequestContext.accounts[iCntr].uniqueid.ToString()))