is it possible to compare char from string with set of chars?

Question

during parsing string I want to make decision when to stop and go to get next portion from string. My main goal is to take 3 portions of string 26 or less chars length. My code seems to me a little weird

for (basis=i*26; basis<name.Length
                    && name[basis] != ' '
                    && name[basis] != '-'
                    && name[basis] != '('
                    && name[basis] != ')'
                    && name[basis] != ';'
                    && name[basis] != ','
                    && name[basis] != '.'
                    && name[basis] != '"';
            basis--) ;

Answer 1

You should be able to use a Set:

var excludes = new HashSet<Char> { ' ', '-', ... };

Then test if your character is in the set with

excludes.contains(someChar)

Set docs