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

Question

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 https://www.newtonsoft.com/json/help/html/ParseJsonArray.htm ? That should do the trick. — gatsby, Jan 28 '19 at 20:12
Possible duplicate of [How do I create a Dto in C# Asp.Net from a fairly complex Json Response](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42708070/how-do-i-create-a-dto-in-c-sharp-asp-net-from-a-fairly-complex-json-response) — CodingYoshi, Jan 28 '19 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, Jan 28 '19 at 20:13
ah. So I guess I'll have to do something else for the semicolon. — Bop It Freak, Jan 28 '19 at 20:14
The first character of a property has to be a letter or underscore. — bcwhims, Jan 28 '19 at 20:16

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 28 '19 at 20:18

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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 '19 at 20:18

JSteward

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So if I do JArray.Parse(String), will that fill in for the json in the code? – Bop It Freak Jan 28 '19 at 20:25
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` – JSteward Jan 28 '19 at 20:27
so I did `Dictionary charSet = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject>(json); Bot.letters = charSet;` and Bot.letters is also a `Dictionary`, but now when i try to access it like this: `letters["A"]`, it says it can't convert string to char. – Bop It Freak Jan 28 '19 at 21:07
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Char has single quotes, 'A' – JSteward Jan 28 '19 at 21:08

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

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