using System;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

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namespace EncodeDecodeRecord

{

    public static class HelperExtensions

    {

        /// <summary>

        /// Encodetwo dimensional array into separated string

        /// </summary>

        /// <param name="source"></param>

        /// <param name="separatorRecord"></param>

        /// <param name="separatorKeyValue"></param>

        /// <returns></returns>

        public static string Encode(this string[,] source, char separatorRecord = '#', char separatorKeyValue = '=')

        {

            var rowLength = source.GetLength(0);

            var builder = new StringBuilder();

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            for (var row = 0; row < rowLength; row++)

            {

                if (row > 0) builder.Append(separatorRecord);

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                builder.Append(source[row, 0]);

                builder.Append(separatorKeyValue);

                builder.Append(source[row, 1]);

            }

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            return builder.ToString();

        }

​

        /// <summary>

        /// Decode separated string into two dimensional arrayy

        /// </summary>

        /// <param name="source"></param>

        /// <param name="separatorRecord"></param>

        /// <param name="separatorKeyValue"></param>

        /// <returns></returns>

        public static string[][] Decode(this string source, char separatorRecord = '#', char separatorKeyValue = '=')

        {

            return source

                .Split(separatorRecord)

                .Select(s => s.Split(separatorKeyValue))

                .ToArray();

        }

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        /// <summary>

        /// Console print helper

        /// </summary>

        /// <param name="source"></param>

        public static void Print(this string[][] source)

        {

            foreach (var row in source)

            {

                Console.WriteLine("[{0}][{1}]", row[0], row[1]);

            }

        }

    }

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    public class Program

    {

        private static readonly string[,] RecordArray =

        {

            {"id", "123"},

            {"name", "bob"},

            {"salary", "30000"}

        };

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        public static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            Console.WriteLine("=======================================================");

            Console.WriteLine("Encoding Array");

            Console.WriteLine("=======================================================");

            var encodedString = RecordArray.Encode();

            Console.WriteLine(encodedString);

            Console.WriteLine();

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            Console.WriteLine("=======================================================");

            Console.WriteLine("Decoding String");

            Console.WriteLine("=======================================================");

            var decodedArray = encodedString.Decode();

            decodedArray.Print();

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        }

    }

}