How to search a string in String array

At first shot, I could come up with something like this (but it's pseudo code and assuming you cannot use any .NET built-in libaries). Might require a bit of tweaking and re-thinking, but should be good enough for a head-start, maybe?

int findString(String var, String[] stringArray, int currentIndex, int stringMaxIndex)
    {
    if currentIndex > stringMaxIndex 
       return (-stringMaxIndex-1);
    else if var==arr[currentIndex] //or use any string comparison op or function
       return 0;
    else 
       return findString(var, stringArray, currentIndex++, stringMaxIndex) + 1 ;
    }



    //calling code
    int index = findString(var, arr, 0, getMaxIndex(arr));

    if index == -1 printOnScreen("Not found");
    else printOnScreen("Found on index: " + index);