.NET: efficient way to produce a string from a Dictionary<K,V> ?
- by Cheeso
Suppose I have a Dictionary<String,String>, and I want to produce a string representation of it. The "stone tools" way of doing it would be:
private static string DictionaryToString(Dictionary<String,String> hash)
{
var list = new List<String> ();
foreach (var kvp in hash)
{
list.Add(kvp.Key + ":" + kvp.Value);
}
var result = String.Join(", ", list.ToArray());
return result;
}
Is there an efficient way to do this in C# using existing extension methods?
I know about the ConvertAll() and ForEach() methods on List, that can be used to eliminate foreach loops. Is there a similar method I can use on Dictionary to iterate through the items and accomplish what I want?
