Question

I have a field that is of type ‘object’. When I inspect it within the Watch window of visual studio I see its Object[] and when I drill into the elements I see each element is a string.

But when I try to cast this to a String[] I get this error:

Cannot cast ‘MyObject’ (which has an actual type of ‘object[]’) to ‘string[]’ string[]

Any reason why I can’t do this cast? What is the best way to convert this object to a string array?

Answer 1

string[] newarr =  Array.ConvertAll(objects, s => (string)s);

–EDIT–

since you’ve said I have an object (knowing that it is an object[] actually)

string[] newarr =  Array.ConvertAll((object[])objects, s => (string)s);