You use the is expression, the switch statement and the switch expression to match an input expression against any number of characteristics. C# suppo

Pattern matching - the is and switch expressions, and operators and, or and not in patterns

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You use the is expression, the switch statement and the switch expression to match an input expression against any number of characteristics. C# supports multiple patterns, including declaration, type, constant, relational, property, list, var, and discard. Patterns can be combined using Boolean logic keywords and, or, and not.

For the example of how to use those patterns to build a data-driven algorithm, see Tutorial: Use pattern matching to build type-driven and data-driven algorithms.

You use declaration and type patterns to check if the run-time type of an expression is compatible with a given type. With a declaration pattern, you can also declare a new local variable. When a declaration pattern matches an expression, that variable is assigned a converted expression result, as the following example shows:

A declaration pattern with type T matches an expression when an expression result is non-null and any of the following conditions are true:

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