Possible Duplicate:
Is there a LINQ way to go from a list of key/value pairs to a dictionary?
Assume that I have a List<string> as below:
var input = new List<string>()
{
"key1",
"value1",
"key2",
"value2",
"key3",
"value3",
"key4",
"value4"
};
Based on this list, I would like to convert to List<KeyValuePair<string, string>>, the reason is to allow the same key, that's why I don't use Dictionary.
var output = new List<KeyValuePair<string, string>>()
{
new KeyValuePair<string, string>("key1", "value1"),
new KeyValuePair<string, string>("key2", "value2"),
new KeyValuePair<string, string>("key3", "value3"),
new KeyValuePair<string, string>("key4", "value4"),
};
I can achieve by using below code:
var keys = new List<string>();
var values = new List<string>();
for (int index = 0; index < input.Count; index++)
{
if (index % 2 == 0) keys.Add(input[index]);
else values.Add(input[index]);
}
var result = keys.Zip(values, (key, value) =>
new KeyValuePair<string, string>(key, value));
But feeling that this is not the best way using loop for, is there any another way that we can use built-in LINQ to achieve it?