• C#: Creating a List of Objects from a List of strings

    SapnaVishwas Member October 5, 2015 at 1:35 pm

    Creating a List of Objects from a List of strings in C#. What I would like to get is like this:

    First Person;  Name =  Peter
                         FavoriteColor = red

Second Person;  Name =  red
                         FavoriteColor =yellow

Third Person;  Name =  Adam
                         FavoriteColor =Green

Fourth Person;  Name =  Green
                         FavoriteColor = violet 

Fifth Person;  Name =  Harry
                         FavoriteColor = Blue
and so forth

    Please note that FavoriteColor of the first person becomes the Name of the Second Person. So the name of a color in the list could actually become the name of the person and what looks like the name of a person could become the FavoriteColor of another person.

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  • Adan Member October 5, 2015 at 1:36 pm

    But if you insist, all you need is a trivial loop, so just leave out the condition:

            for (int i = 0; i < list.Count - 1; i++)
	{
		Person person = new Person();
		person.Name = list[i];
		person.FavoriteColor = list[i + 1];
		personsList.Add(person);
	}
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  • ShikhaTan Member October 5, 2015 at 1:36 pm

    I agree it does not make sense to put a word which looks like the name of a person as a Favorite Color of the next person, but this is the logic I need to implement. To put it another way, if this was the list of integers – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 then our persons will like 1 2, 2 3, 3 4, 4 5, 5 6 and so on.

    Leaving out the condition does not make any difference to the output. I am still getting the same list of person that the version of the code with the condition did.

    Perhaps what we can do is in each run of the loop we remove the first item from the list and pass the cut down version (one word less than previously) of the list through our function, then it may give the result I need, though I do not know how to do it.

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