List <object> limbo = new List <object>(); // maybe make this static? it would prevent multithreading but it would give a smaller memory footprint, idk atm
public object FromString(string str)
{
str = str.Trim('\r', '\n', ' ', '[', ']');
var values = str.Split(new char[] { ',' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
limbo.Clear(); // the intermediate list is so we can make sure every element deserializes correctly before making the array
foreach (string value in values)
{
limbo.Add(InternalParser.FromString(value.Trim()));
}
var array = Array.CreateInstance(ElementType, limbo.Count);
for (int i = 0; i < limbo.Count; i++)
{
array.SetValue(limbo[i], i);
}
return(array);
}
protected override object ParseString(string str)
{
return(parser.FromString(str));
}