[2005] Splitting a file

[Geespot]

Hi

I have a text file that contains groups of data like this

group 1
one
two
three

group 2
four
fiev
six

group 3
etc
...


I have the entire text file loaded into a string and I want to extract the 'groups' of data into serperate string variables.

How can I use the Split statement to do this?

I thought I would have been able to use

dim groups() as string = text.Split(vbcrlf & vbcrlf)

but that only splits it line by line

If I have to I will just do it manually but I was hoping I could do this with Split

Thanks

[jmcilhinney]

You could use the Regex.Split method. That let's you specify a pattern as the delimiter rather than a specific character or string. You just need to determine the appropriate pattern that matches your group headers. That will get each group as an element of a string array and you can use String.Split to split each group on line breaks.