Small LINQ Trick for Converting List<String> to String Text List

Updated: at 02:12 PM

Here is a shorthand way for converting a list of strings defined as follows:

 List<string> strings = new List<string>

{
	<span class="str">&quot;a&quot;</span>,<span class="str">&quot;b&quot;</span>,<span class="str">&quot;c&quot;</span>

};</pre>



To something that looks like:




“a:b:c:”


Here is the trick using the foreach syntax:


 var stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
 strings.ForEach(a=>stringBuilder.AppendFormat("{0}:",a));


 
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