Convert a delimted string to a dictionary in C#

Question

I have a string of the format \"key1=value1;key2=value2;key3=value3;\"

I need to convert it to a dictionary for the above mentioned key value pairs.

What wou

Answer 1

Behold the awesome whitespace ignoring, correcting for last value having or not having a semicolon power of regular expressions:

        var dict = Regex.Matches("key1 = value1; key2 = value2 ; key3 = value3", @"\s*(.*?)\s*=\s*(.*?)\s*(;|$)")
        .OfType()
        .ToDictionary(m => m.Groups[1].Value, m => m.Groups[2].Value);

But seriously though, Ani deserves props for the .ToDictionary(). I would never have thought of that.