Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<AnonymousType#1>' to 'System.Collections.Generic.List<string>

Question

IEnumerable<string> e = (from char c in source
                        select new { Data = c.ToString() }).Select(t = > t.Data);
// or
IEnumerable<string> e = from char c in source
                        select c.ToString();
// or
IEnumerable<string> e = source.Select(c = > c.ToString());

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Then you can call ToList():

List<string> l = (from char c in source
                  select new { Data = c.ToString() }).Select(t = > t.Data).ToList();
// or
List<string> l = (from char c in source
                  select c.ToString()).ToList();
// or
List<string> l = source.Select(c = > c.ToString()).ToList();

If you want it to be List<string>, get rid of the anonymous type and add a .ToList() call:

List<string> list = (from char c in source
                     select c.ToString()).ToList();

try

var lst= (from char c in source select c.ToString()).ToList();

If you have source as a string like "abcd" and want to produce a list like this:

{ "a.a" },
{ "b.b" },
{ "c.c" },
{ "d.d" }

then call:

List<string> list = source.Select(c => String.Concat(c, ".", c)).ToList();