VB "explode"

[ethanhayon]

Im not sure if anyone here knows PHP, but there is a command called "explode" to break apart a string. Is there any thing similar to this in Visual Basic?

[bgmacaw]

The Split command is what you're looking for.

[timeshifter]

Depends on the end goal. If you need to break it apart by a delimiter, than use the Split() function. You could also use the .ToCharArray() function to break it apart into a string array, each member containing one character of the string.

[ethanhayon]

my goal is to take the output of a shell command and use only certain parts of it

Would i use split() for that?

and by the way, its going to need to be broken apart by spaces.

[timeshifter]

Then yes. Bring it in as a string. I'll call it myStr. Then run this command:
Dim strArray() As String = myStr.Split(" ")

[ethanhayon]

then when i want to retrieve it, what variable would i use?

[bgmacaw]

Split would work for that, depending on if the return string had consistant delimiters. You could also use the regular expression component if your parsing needs were more complex.

[timeshifter]

You would call strArray and whatever element you want. So if you wanted the second element, you'd call for strArray(1), since arrays are 0-based.

[ethanhayon]

ok. thanks a lot for the quick replies, ill try that when i get back home and reply whether it worked or not.

I guess its very similar to PHP

[ethanhayon]

one more thing,

the string that i want to break apart would be set equal to StrArray(), right?

[Hack]

Yes, and its elements would be strArray(0) to strArray(x) depending on how many elements it had.

[ethanhayon]

Ok, thanks a lot guys

[chankew]

I am trying to parse a string who's delimiter is a newline. Do you know how I could do this in VBScript?

Thanks in advance!!

[jmcilhinney]

I am trying to parse a string who's delimiter is a newline. Do you know how I could do this in VBScript?

Thanks in advance!!

This is a VB.NET forum, not VBScript. If you take a look at the site home page it tells you what each forum is for. There is one dedicated to VBScript and this is not it.

[RizAhmed]

I want to split a string on basis of a repeated string, or may be a delimiter composed of more than one characters.

Is there any function available to do that.

Substring is also a function but it takes integer index values which is not applicable to my case?