Question

i have an string data array which contains data like this

5~kiran
2~ram
1~arun
6~rohan

now a method returns an value like string [] data

 public string [] names()
    {
        return data.Toarray()
    }

    public class Person 
    { 
        public string Name { get; set; } 
        public int Age { get; set; } 
    }



 List<Person> persons = new List<Person>(); 
    string [] names = names();

now i need to copy all the data from an string array to an list
and finally bind to grid view

gridview.datasoutrce= persons

how can i do it. is there any built in method to do it

thanks in advance

prince

Answer 1

Something like this:

var persons = (from n in names()
               let s = n.split('~')
               select new Person { Name=s[1], Age=int.Parse(s[0]) }
              ).ToList();