How to convert a JSON array to an array of string values

Question

I'm try to parse some JSON like this:

{ "results": [ "MLU413843206", "MLU413841098", "MLU413806325", "MLU413850890", "MLU413792303", "MLU413843455", "MLU413909270", "MLU413921617", "MLU413921983", "MLU413924015", "MLU413924085" ] } 

All is fine until I try to obtain the values themselves, for example:

 // The JSON is shown above var jsonResp = JObject.Parse(json); var items = jsonResp["results"].Children(); 

I don't know how to obtain the values, each converted to string. Does somebody know how to do this?

Answer 1

You're halfway there. You can use the Select() method in the System.Linq namespace to project the IEnumerable<JToken> returned from the Children() method into an IEnumerable<string>. From there you can loop over the values using foreach, or put the values into a List<string> using ToList() (or both).

string json = @" { ""results"": [ ""MLU413843206"", ""MLU413841098"", ""MLU413806325"", ""MLU413850890"", ""MLU413792303"", ""MLU413843455"", ""MLU413909270"", ""MLU413921617"", ""MLU413921983"", ""MLU413924015"", ""MLU413924085"" ] }"; JObject jsonResp = JObject.Parse(json); List<string> items = jsonResp["results"].Children() .Select(t => t.ToString()) .ToList(); foreach (string item in items) { Console.WriteLine(item); } 

Fiddle: https://dotnetfiddle.net/Jcy8Ao