C#: Parsing a non-JSON array-only api response to a class object with x properties

Question

I have a response from some Rest API that just returns some array of arrays like the following:

[
[123,\"0.01\",\"0.02\",\"0.03\",\"0.04\",\"12345.00000\",123456         


        

Answer 1

Depending on exactly how the response is formatted you might be able to do something like this:

var s = "[[123,\"0.01\",\"0.02\",\"0.03\",\"0.04\",\"12345.00000\",123456789,\"300.000\",4000,\"123.000\",\"456.000\",\"0\"],[456,\"0.04\",\"0.03\",\"0.02\",\"0.01\",\"54321.00000\",987654321,\"500.000\",4000,\"123.000\",\"456.000\",\"1\"],[789,\"0.05\",\"0.06\",\"0.07\",\"0.08\",\"12345.00000\",123456789,\"700.000\",8000,\"456.000\",\"123.000\",\"0\"]]";

var lines = s.Split(new char[] { '[', ']' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).Select(a => a.Split(new char[] { ',' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).Select(b => b.TrimEnd('"').TrimStart('"')).ToArray()).Where(a => a.Any());

var c = lines.Count();

var foo = new foo
{
    firstParam = new int[c],
    secondParam = new string[c],
    thirdParam = new string[c]
};

for (int i = 0; i < c; i++)
{
    foo.firstParam[i] = Int32.Parse(lines.ElementAt(i)[0]);
    foo.secondParam[i] = lines.ElementAt(i)[1];
    foo.thirdParam[i] = lines.ElementAt(i)[2];
}

Console.WriteLine(string.Join(", ", foo.firstParam)); \\123, 456, 789
Console.WriteLine(string.Join(", ", foo.secondParam)); \\0.01, 0.04, 0.05
Console.WriteLine(string.Join(", ", foo.thirdParam)); \\0.02, 0.03, 0.06