IEnumerable to string [duplicate]

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You can use String.Concat().

var allowedString = String.Concat(
    inputString.Where(c => allowedChars.Contains(c))
);

Caveat: This approach will have some performance implications. String.Concat doesn’t special case collections of characters so it performs as if every character was converted to a string then concatenated as mentioned in the documentation (and it actually does). Sure this gives you a builtin way to accomplish this task, but it could be done better.

I don’t think there are any implementations within the framework that will special case char so you’ll have to implement it. A simple loop appending characters to a string builder is simple enough to create.

Here’s some benchmarks I took on a dev machine and it looks about right.

1000000 iterations on a 300 character sequence on a 32-bit release build:

ToArrayString:        00:00:03.1695463
Concat:               00:00:07.2518054
StringBuilderChars:   00:00:03.1335455
StringBuilderStrings: 00:00:06.4618266

static readonly IEnumerable<char> seq = Enumerable.Repeat('a', 300);

static string ToArrayString(IEnumerable<char> charSequence)
{
    return new String(charSequence.ToArray());
}

static string Concat(IEnumerable<char> charSequence)
{
    return String.Concat(charSequence);
}

static string StringBuilderChars(IEnumerable<char> charSequence)
{
    var sb = new StringBuilder();
    foreach (var c in charSequence)
    {
        sb.Append(c);
    }
    return sb.ToString();
}

static string StringBuilderStrings(IEnumerable<char> charSequence)
{
    var sb = new StringBuilder();
    foreach (var c in charSequence)
    {
        sb.Append(c.ToString());
    }
    return sb.ToString();
}

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