Question

I have a C# List that I want to create a comma separate string. I’ve found other answers on SO that deal with this, but my particular case I want to only use a portion of the values in the List to create the string.

If my List contained these values:

“Foo”
“Bar”
“Car”

and I wanted to create a string

Foo, Bar and Car.

I could use this code:

string.Format("{0} and {1}.", 
              string.Join(", ", myList.Take(myList.Count - 1)), 
              myList.Last());

However, my list is actual formed of jSON values like so

{ Name = "Foo" }
{ Name = "Bar" }
{ Name = "Car" }

So the above code results in:

{ Name = "Foo" }, { Name = "Bar" } and { Name = "Car" }.

How would I construct the string such that I only use the Foo, Bar and Car values in the list?

Update

Thanks to @StevePy, this is what I ended up with:

string.Format("{0} and {1}.", 
              string.Join(", ", myList.Select(x => x.Name).ToList().Take(myList.Count - 1)), 
              myList.Select(x => x.Name).ToList().Last());

Answer 1

Linq should help.

var nameList = myList.Select(x=>x.Name).ToList();