Print Contents Of A DataTable

Question

Currently I have code which looks up a database table through a SQL connection and inserts the top five rows into a Datatable (Table).

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Answer 1

Here is another solution which dumps the table to a comma separated string:

using System.Data;

public static string DumpDataTable(DataTable table)
        {
            string data = string.Empty;
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

            if (null != table && null != table.Rows)
            {
                foreach (DataRow dataRow in table.Rows)
                {
                    foreach (var item in dataRow.ItemArray)
                    {
                        sb.Append(item);
                        sb.Append(',');
                    }
                    sb.AppendLine();
                }

                data = sb.ToString();
            }
            return data;
        }