Find textbox by name in a list of textboxes

Question

Given a list of RichTextBox , I would like to access one by its name.

So for example:

EDIT I shouldn't have used the loop in the question. I am trying to access the name without a for loop.

public RichTextBox boxFinder(List<RichTextBox> boxes)
{
    return boxes.Find("boxname")
}

Answer 1

The simplest method would be to use FirstOrDefalut

return boxes.FirstOrDefault(b => b.Name == "MyName");

First will throw if there is no matching element. Note that this essentially performs a foreach that breaks after an element is found under the hood.

Answer 2

Find is a function which takes a predicate (that is, a delegate which returns a bool). You can call find using lambda:

public RichTextBox boxFinder(List<RichTextBox> boxes)
{
    return boxes.Find(box=>box.Name == "boxname");
}

Of course wrapping it in a function like this probably doesn't buy you much.