How can I get generic Type from a string representation?

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The format for generics is the name, a ` character, the number of type parameters, followed by a comma-delimited list of the types in brackets:

Type.GetType("System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1[System.String]");

I’m not sure there’s an easy way to convert from the C# syntax for generics to the kind of string the CLR wants. I started writing a quick regex to parse it out like you mentioned in the question, but realized that unless you give up the ability to have nested generics as type parameters the parsing will get very complicated.

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