Converting List<string> to byte[]

Question

How can I take a List and turn it into a byte array.

I thought there might be some clever LINQ options for it but am unsure eg/List.ForEach

Answer 1

Depends on which encoding you want to use to convert the string to a byte[] but here's a sample for ASCII. It can be substituted for pretty much any encoding type

List<string> data = ...
byte[] dataAsBytes = data
  .SelectMany(s => Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(s))
  .ToArray();