I need to often convert a "string block" (a string containing return characters, e.g. from a file or a TextBox) into List<string>
.
What is a more elegant way of doing it than the ConvertBlockToLines method below?
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
namespace TestConvert9922
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string testBlock = "line one" + Environment.NewLine +
"line two" + Environment.NewLine +
"line three" + Environment.NewLine +
"line four" + Environment.NewLine +
"line five";
List<string> lines = StringHelpers.ConvertBlockToLines(testBlock);
lines.ForEach(l => Console.WriteLine(l));
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
public static class StringHelpers
{
public static List<string> ConvertBlockToLines(this string block)
{
string fixedBlock = block.Replace(Environment.NewLine, "§");
List<string> lines = fixedBlock.Split('§').ToList<string>();
lines.ForEach(s => s = s.Trim());
return lines;
}
}
}