Spliting a string

[Simon Canning]

Here is an example of a string that I am wishing to use:

tourney ffa team ctf clan arena

I am wanting to split it into an array.

I am currently using this code:

stringCurrentGameTypes = Split(stringTypeList, " ")

This works. I am wanting to make an exception to certain strings. "clan arena" is one.

Rather than having two entries, one as "clan" and the other as "arena", I would like "clan arena" to be one entry in the array.

How would the best way be to go about this?

[dunfiddlin]

Are all the strings this convenient, ie. 1,1,1,1,2 words? That's doable. If it varies, eg. 2,1,1,1,1 or 1,1,1,1,1 then we've got a problem!

[.paul.]

you can work around it with regex:

Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions
 
Public Class Form1
 
    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Dim s As String = "tourney ffa team ctf ""clan arena"""
        For Each str As String In Regex.Split(s, "(?<!""\w+?)\s(?!\w+?"")")
            MsgBox(str.Replace("""", ""))
        Next
    End Sub
 
End Class

[Simon Canning]

If it varies, eg. 2,1,1,1,1 or 1,1,1,1,1 then we've got a problem!

Unfortunately... it varies

Any other ideas on how to accomplish this?

Maybe add all the items to the array and then call a 'Clean up' function that loops through the array, finds the positions of the 'clan' and 'arena' entries and then combines them into one entry.

Could this be the way to do it?

[BlindSniper]

If that is the only exception, then I would simply search my splitted string for clan and arena and merge the two, however if there are a lot more exceptions I would create a small tokenizer and parser seeing as your string doesn't have delimiters.