LINQ: Convert String array to List of objects of custom class

Suppose we have a user class

public class User
{
 public string Name { get; set; }
}

and we have the usernames in a string array as shown below

string[] names = new string[5] {"John", "David", "Robert", "Paul", "Mary" };

if we want to convert it as list of User class objects, the general method for this is

List usersList =new List();
foreach(var name in names)
{
usersList.Add(new User(){
Name=name;
});
}

Using LINQ, we can achive the same with a single line

List usersList = names.Select(x => new User() { Name = x } ).ToList();

Happy Coding 😊 !!

Gopikrishna