DotNet Snippets^1.0

Lets say you have a comma delimited list of id's in a string object. You want to get these id's into a int[] array. Here is how to do it quick:

string[] idList = someIDs.Split(',');

int[] intIdList = Array.ConvertAll(idList, new Converter<string, int>(StringToInt32));

You will also need to define the follow static function

public static int StringToInt32(string number)
{
     return Convert.ToInt32(number);
}

Wasn't that easy? Note that you can convert other object types too, not simply string to int.