Check null value in a list using linq

Question

I have a list List<OfferComparison> Comparison. I want to check if all the items have Value == null in an if condition.

How can I do it with linq?

public class OfferComparison : BaseModel
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Value { get; set; }
    public bool Valid { get; set; }
}

Solution 1

Using linq method of All:

var result = Comparison.All(item => item.Value == null)

Basically what it does is to iterate all items of a collection and check a predicate for each of them. If one does not match - result is false

Solution 2

You can check by this linq statement

var isNull = Comparison.All(item => item.Value == null);

Solution 3

I'm not totally sure about the internal differences of All and Exists, but it might be a good idea to just check whether one of the entries is not null and then negate the result:

var result = !Comparison.Exists(o => o.Value != null);

I would expect this query to quit after the first non-null value was found and therefore to be a little more efficient.

Update: From the Enumerable.All documentation:

The enumeration of source is stopped as soon as the result can be determined.

Therefore, using All will probably not result in the entire list getting processed after a non-null value has been found.

So the aforementioned possible performance gain is not likely to occur and both solutions probably do not differ.