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Multiple Delimiter in a single string! How to count those as one?

Hello All:
A pretty frustrating question to ask! I use the string [] something
= stringx.split (delimiter.toch ararray()) mathod to delimit a long
string by space! So supposely
if the stringx is :
" something something1 something2 " I should get string [0] =
something, string[1] = something1...et c
However question comes what happens if the string looks like this
" something something1 something 2"
instead of string [0] = something, string[1] = something1...

I get string [0] = something string[1] = "" string[2] =
""........strin g[11] = something1....e tc

In excel there is a function in text delimiter to treat all similar
delimiter as one. I just wondering how to do that in C#?

Thank You For your reply!

Oct 19 '06 #1
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"pengb" <pe******@yahoo .comwrote in news:1161272163 .227933.172150
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Hello All:
A pretty frustrating question to ask! I use the string [] something
= stringx.split (delimiter.toch ararray()) mathod to delimit a long
string by space! So supposely
if the stringx is :
" something something1 something2 " I should get string [0] =
something, string[1] = something1...et c
However question comes what happens if the string looks like this
" something something1 something 2"
instead of string [0] = something, string[1] = something1...

I get string [0] = something string[1] = "" string[2] =
""........strin g[11] = something1....e tc

In excel there is a function in text delimiter to treat all similar
delimiter as one. I just wondering how to do that in C#?
You can use RegularExpressi ons to do this.... pretty simple really:

string s = "something something somethingelse";
string[] ss = System.Text.Reg ularExpressions .Regex.Split(s, @"\s+");

-mdb
Oct 19 '06 #2
pengb wrote:
Hello All:
A pretty frustrating question to ask! I use the string [] something
= stringx.split (delimiter.toch ararray()) mathod to delimit a long
string by space! So supposely
if the stringx is :
" something something1 something2 " I should get string [0] =
something, string[1] = something1...et c
However question comes what happens if the string looks like this
" something something1 something 2"
instead of string [0] = something, string[1] = something1...

I get string [0] = something string[1] = "" string[2] =
""........strin g[11] = something1....e tc

In excel there is a function in text delimiter to treat all similar
delimiter as one. I just wondering how to do that in C#?
Checking the docs, I see that the string.split method has several
overloads. One of them takes a StringSplitOpti ons enum:

string[] sa = s.Split(new char[] { ' ' },
StringSplitOpti ons.RemoveEmpty Entries);

Oct 20 '06 #3

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