[RESOLVED] String split

[chemicalNova]

Howdy all,

In VB6 I wrote a function to split a string by a character, which ignored quotes.

For example, the Split functions in VB6 and C# would split the following string:

He said, "Hello, my name is blahblah!", to everyone.

VB6 and C# will split this like so, using a comma as the split character:

1) He said
2) "Hello
3) my name is blahblah!"
4) to everyone.

What my function did was split it like so:

1) He said
2) "Hello, my name is blahblah!"
3) to everyone.

I'm having trouble porting it to C#. Obviously, it returned a string array, but in VB I had the comfort of using ReDim. Can anyone write me a function to split by character but ignore quotes? My brain just doesn't want to work today :/

Cheers for any help,

chem

[BramVandenbon]

The String class has a Replace and Split function. Those will help you !

[jmcilhinney]

.NET 2.0 provides the Array.Resize method, which does for every .NET language what VB's ReDim Preserve did just for VB.

[BramVandenbon]

The String class has a Replace and Split function. Those will help you !

Yeah I just realized I didn't read your question good enough, sorry

[chemicalNova]

.NET 2.0 provides the Array.Resize method, which does for every .NET language what VB's ReDim Preserve did just for VB.

Hmm. I really should re-lookup most of the stuff. I haven't used .NET in a long long time..

Thanks for the help, I ended up just looping through and storing them in an ArrayList, then copying that to a string array.

I'll lookup that Resize stuff jmc...cheers.

chem

[jmcilhinney]

Don't use ArrayLists in .NET 2.0. If you want a collection of String objects then use a StringCollection, which was available in .NET 1.x too, or a List(Of String). Only use an ArrayList on the rare occasion that you want to be able to store multiple, unrelated types in the same collection.

[chemicalNova]

Don't use ArrayLists in .NET 2.0. If you want a collection of String objects then use a StringCollection, which was available in .NET 1.x too, or a List(Of String). Only use an ArrayList on the rare occasion that you want to be able to store multiple, unrelated types in the same collection.

I am actually looking to store different types in there aswell, but thanks for the advice

chem