How do i convert this JSON object into C# code?

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I'm trying to convert a JSON object from JavaScript into C#. I want to be able to access it like you would in normal JavaScript, like this: letters.property[arrayindex].

I tried some of those online converters, which gave me the class, but some of the properties of the object are invalid; I basically have one property for every letter of the alphabet, and some of the punctuation characters, like the semicolon, which C# won't let me use as an object property.

Here is the JSON object I want to convert:

 {
            "-": [

        ["0", "0", "0", "0", "0", "0", "0", "0"],
        ["0", "0", "0", "0", "0", "0", "0", "0"],
        ["0", "0", "1", "1", "1", "1", "0", "0"],
        ["0", "0", "1", "1", "1", "1", "0", "0"],
        ["0", "0", "1", "1", "1", "1", "0", "0"],
        ["0", "0", "0", "0", "0", "0", "0", "0"],
        ["0", "0", "0", "0", "0", "0", "0", "0"],
        ["0", "0", "0", "0", "0", "0", "0", "0"]



   ],
}

That is just one property of the object, there are many after that as well that are similar to this one. How do I convert this?

Did you try newtonsoft.com/json/help/html/ParseJsonArray.htm ? That should do the trick. — gatsby
– gatsby, Commented Jan 28, 2019 at 20:12
Possible duplicate of How do I create a Dto in C# Asp.Net from a fairly complex Json Response — CodingYoshi
– CodingYoshi, Commented Jan 28, 2019 at 20:12
There's not any way to have a semicolon as a property name. The closest you could do is to deserialize it as a dictionary. — bcwhims
– bcwhims, Commented Jan 28, 2019 at 20:13

JSteward · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-28 20:18:22Z

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You could try to deserialize to something like this:

var charSet = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<char, int[][]>>(json);
var valueSet = charSet['-'];

answered Jan 28, 2019 at 20:18

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4 Comments

Bop It Freak Over a year ago

So if I do JArray.Parse(String), will that fill in for the json in the code?

JSteward Over a year ago

For json I used what you had posted in the OP, minus the trailing comma. So it should work for you. Just use the raw string not JArray.Parse

Bop It Freak Over a year ago

so I did

Dictionary<char, int[][]> charSet = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<char, int[][]>>(json); Bot.letters = charSet;

and Bot.letters is also a Dictionary<char, int[][]>, but now when i try to access it like this: letters["A"], it says it can't convert string to char.

JSteward Over a year ago

Char has single quotes, 'A'

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