Question

I have a problem here and it seems that my brain has just left the building so I need you guys to help me out. I have an API – method which requires a multidimensional string array. It looks like this:

string[,] specialMacroArray = new string[,] { { "#macro#", "text1" }, {"#secondmacro#", "text2"} }

The contents of the array are calculated throughout my method and therefor I cannot write it like above. So I put the values in a List throughout my code like this:

List<string[]> specialMacros = new List<string[]>();
specialMacros.Add(new string[] { "#macro#", text1 });
specialMacros.Add(new string[] { "#secondmacro#", "text2" });

So far so good… but now I want to convert the list to the multidimensional array. But I can’t figure out how.

specialMacroArray = specialMacros.ToArray()

I am using the .NET 3.5 Framework in C#

Thanx in advance

Answer 1

For this case you could just do this:

specialMacroArray = new string[specialMacros.Count, 2];
for (int i = 0; i < specialMacros.Count; i++)
{
    specialMacroArray[i, 0] = specialMacros[i][0];
    specialMacroArray[i, 1] = specialMacros[i][1];
}