Convert a delimited string to a dictionary in C#

How do I convert the string to a Dictionary<string, uint>?

There are already answers to this & I tried this but it gives me error.

string abc = "key1=value1,key2=value2";

And below thing gives error:

var dict = text.Split(new[] {','}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
           .Select(part => part.Split('='))
           .ToDictionary(split => split[0], split => split[1]);

I’m not sure how to store the value as uint in dictionary. Any suggestions?

Update: and at later point I want to convert this Dictionary<string, uint> back to a comma-separated string (key=value). How do I do that reverse conversion using linq?

Answers:

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Method 1

You are very close – all you need is to parse uint for the value:

Dictionary<string,uint> dict = text.Split(new[] {','}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
       .Select(part => part.Split('='))
       .ToDictionary(split => split[0], split => uint.Parse(split[1]));

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