ToCharArray equivalent for List<string>

addrange, arrays, c#

Solution

If you want a list of characters, then you would use a `List<char>` rather than `List<string>`, and then you don't have to do anything at all to the string. The `AddRange` method takes an `IEnumerable<char>` and the `String` class happens to implement `IEnumerable<char>`:

string data = "ABCDEFGHIJ1fFJKAL";
List<char> datalist = new List<char>();
datalist.AddRange(data);

If you want a `List<string>` to hold the characters anyway, then you would need to convert each character to a string:

string data = "ABCDEFGHIJ1fFJKAL";
List<string> datalist = new List<string>();
datalist.AddRange(data.Select(c => c.ToString()));

Problem

How do you split a string to a List? I'm looking for the equivalent of ToCharArray but instead to make it a List. ``` string data = "ABCDEFGHIJ1fFJKAL"; List<string> datalist = new List<string>(); datalist.AddRange(new List<string>{"A","B","C"}); ``` How do you convert data so it will be accepted by AddRange?

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