Check if two lists are equal

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Use SequenceEqual to check for sequence equality because Equals method checks for reference equality.

var a = ints1.SequenceEqual(ints2);

Or if you don’t care about elements order use Enumerable.All method:

var a = ints1.All(ints2.Contains);

The second version also requires another check for Count because it would return true even if ints2 contains more elements than ints1. So the more correct version would be something like this:

var a = ints1.All(ints2.Contains) && ints1.Count == ints2.Count;

In order to check inequality just reverse the result of All method:

var a = !ints1.All(ints2.Contains)

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