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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
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Richard Deeming10-Dec-13 6:50
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Richard Deeming11-Dec-13 2:27
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Are you sure? They both use a virtually identical approach behind the scenes.

And since the original code is only comparing the first three characters of the item string, you'd have to use Substring to create a new string before you could call Equals, which would almost certainly be slower.



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