Check if there are no repeats in the list

Question

I have a list called com, which contains a bunch of integers. I need to check the list to make sure that each integer only exists once in the list. So if:

com{1,2,3,4,1,3}

I need have some code to check that 1 is represented twice as well as 3. This is my best guess on how to solve it:

for (int j = 0; j < com.Count; j++)
        {
            if (com.Contains(com[j]))
            {
                lion += 1;
            }
            else
            {
                lion = 0;
            }   
        }

But it doesn't work. Can anybody out there help me??

Answer 1

Here's a simple, but probably not that efficient way using LINQ:

using System.Linq;

...

bool containsRepeats = com.Count() != com.Distinct().Count();