Perhaps a bit off-topic, but I use a ToDelimitedString
extension method which works for any IEnumerable<T>
. You can (optionally) specify the delimiter to use and a delegate to perform a custom string conversion for each element:
// if you've already overridden ToString in your MyClass object...
Console.WriteLine(list.ToDelimitedString());
// if you don't have a custom ToString method in your MyClass object...
Console.WriteLine(list.ToDelimitedString(x => x.Property1 + "-" + x.Property2));
// ...
public static class MyExtensionMethods
{
public static string ToDelimitedString<T>(this IEnumerable<T> source)
{
return source.ToDelimitedString(x => x.ToString(),
CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.ListSeparator);
}
public static string ToDelimitedString<T>(
this IEnumerable<T> source, Func<T, string> converter)
{
return source.ToDelimitedString(converter,
CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.ListSeparator);
}
public static string ToDelimitedString<T>(
this IEnumerable<T> source, string separator)
{
return source.ToDelimitedString(x => x.ToString(), separator);
}
public static string ToDelimitedString<T>(this IEnumerable<T> source,
Func<T, string> converter, string separator)
{
return string.Join(separator, source.Select(converter).ToArray());
}
}