c# - How to Deserialize JSON data? -

i new working json data.

i reading data web service. query data sent following:

[["b02001_001e","name","state"],  ["4712651","alabama","01"],  ["691189","alaska","02"],  ["6246816","arizona","04"],  ["18511620","florida","12"],  ["9468815","georgia","13"],  ["1333591","hawaii","15"],  ["1526797","idaho","16"],  ["3762322","puerto rico","72"]] 

is there way deserialize data in such way base object generated without me first defining object like? in above example object defined first row:

           ["b02001_001e","name","state"], 

in general web service return query data formatted 2 dimensional json array first row provides column names , subsequent rows provide data values.

you can deserialize easily. data's structure in c# list<string[]> do;

  list<string[]> data = jsonconvert.deserializeobject<list<string[]>>(jsonstring); 

the above code assuming you're using json.net.

edit: note json technically array of string arrays. prefer use list<string[]> own declaration because it's imo more intuitive. won't cause problems json.net, if want array of string arrays need change type (i think) string[][] there funny little gotcha's jagged , 2d arrays in c# don't know don't bother dealing here.