Same I also did this but with string since it's the return type and it wouldn't work so I wrote an if statement with the replace method inside instead.

you might have forgotten to write Replace with a capital R.

This would fail the 'name' is null. You should do the other way around: "Zach.Equals(name)".

No way we thought about it

there's no way you literally did this and it didn't work

I like it, but it lacks recursion.

easy

Just one look and i've already understood what its doing. Kudos.

I really like this solution

now i know. ty (Y)

Linq has been a part of C# since version 3. It is not a separate library. Using linq means you are writing functional code. If you are a beginner, you should try writing loops to understand programming but I would never use a loop to find an item in a collection in production code.

everytime i see solutions with using System.Linq;

try without it. sure it is easy with libs.. but sometimes you dont have the possibility

A portion of that delay is a one-time initialisation delay, rather than a per-iteration delay.