How to split a string of array of arrays of integers into List<int[]>?

Question

I serialized a javascript array using JSON.stringify and got a string which I used it as:

string test = "[[0,0],[0,0],[0,0],[0,0],[0,0],[0,0]]";

How do I convert 'test' to a C# List variable?

Answer 1

The basic JavaScriptSerializer works for this:

using System.Web.Script.Serialization;

string test = "[[0,2],[0,0],[0,0],[0,0],[0,0],[0,0]]";

var listOfInts = new JavaScriptSerializer()
                     .Deserialize<int[][]>(test)
                     .SelectMany(x => x).ToList();

var listOfArrays = new JavaScriptSerializer()
                       .Deserialize<int[][]>(test)
                       .Select(x => x).ToList();

Not sure whether you wanted a list of arrays or a straight up list of each number.. so I gave both.