How do I check if a List contains an object of a certain type? C#

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Kiloku picture Kiloku · Nov 21, 2011 · Viewed 14.8k times · Source

I have a list (called Within), and it contains objects of type GameObject. GameObject is a parent class to many others, including Dog and Ball. I want to make a method that returns true if Within contains any object of type Ball, but I don't know how to do this.

I've tried using Count<>, Any<>, Find<> and a few other methods provided within C#, but I couldn't get them to work. 

public bool DetectBall(List<GameObject> Within)
{
    //if Within contains any object of type ball:
    {
        return true;
    }
}

Answer

SLaks picture SLaks · Nov 21, 2011 
if (within.OfType<Ball>().Any())

The generic parameter of all LINQ methods except Cast<T>() and OfType<T>() is used to allow the method call to compile and must be compatible with the type of the list (or for a covariant cast). They cannot be used to filter by type.

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