How to convert string into string array

Question

If i have string like that:

string s = "xzy...";

how to convert it to array like that:

string[] ss = {"x", "z", "y", ...}

Yuriy Faktorovich · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-26 00:43:49Z

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You're looking for ToCharArray().

This returns an array of chars.
If you really need an array of strings, you can write

Array.ConvertAll(s.ToCharArray(), c => c.ToString())

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answered Jul 26, 2011 at 0:38

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I knew that there is method s.ToCharArray() but didn't know how to convert it to string array just using just one line of code.

Yuriy Faktorovich · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-26 00:40:26Z

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If you'd like to convert it to an array of characters you can use

s.ToCharArray();

But note that it already implements IEnumerable<char> and has an indexer by position. If you really need strings

s.Select(c => c.ToString()).ToArray()

answered Jul 26, 2011 at 0:40

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