How do I form a good predicate delegate to Find() something in my List<T>?

Question

After looking on MSDN, it's still unclear to me how I should form a proper predicate to use the Find() method in List using a member variable of T (where T is a class)

For example:

public class Car
{
   public string Make;
   public string Model;
   public int Year;
}

{  // somewhere in my code
   List<Car> carList = new List<Car>();
   // ... code to add Cars ...

   Car myCar = new Car();

   // Find the first of each car made between 1980 and 2000
   for (int x = 1980; x < 2000; x++)
   {
       myCar = carList.Find(byYear(x));
       Console.Writeline(myCar.Make + myCar.Model);
   }
}

What should my "byYear" predicate look like?

(The MSDN example only talks about a List of dinosaurs and only searches for an unchanging value "saurus" -- It doesn't show how to pass a value into the predicate...)

EDIT: I'm using VS2005/.NET2.0, so I don't think Lambda notation is available to me...

EDIT2: Removed "1999" in the example because I may want to "Find" programatically based on different values. Example changed to range of cars from 1980 to 2000 using for-do loop.

Answer 1

You can use a lambda expression as follows:

myCar = carList.Find(car => car.Year == 1999);