Convert a C# string array to a dictionary

Question

Is there an elegant way of converting this string array:

string[] a = new[] {\"name\", \"Fred\", \"colour\", \"green\", \"sport\", \"tennis\"};

Answer 1

I've made a simular method to handle this type of request. But since your array contains both keys and values i think you need to split this first.

Then you can use something like this to combine them

public static IDictionary ZipMyTwoListToDictionary(IEnumerable listContainingKeys, IEnumerable listContainingValue)
    {
        return listContainingValue.Zip(listContainingKeys, (value, key) => new { value, key }).ToDictionary(i => i.key, i => i.value);
    }