Splitting Name and Value Parameters

[Jeff Williams]

I have a string which is formated like this

Name1=Value1; Name2=Value2; Name3=Value3

I need to split this to an array of

Name1=Value1
Name2=Value2
Name3=Value3

What is the best way to split the Name and Values so I can place them
into an array.

Regards
Jeff

[Marc Gravell]

Random thought; this matches the syntaz for a connection string, so
just set this as the ConnectionStrin g of a DbConnectionStr ingBuilder
instance, and you can parse the keys and item members. Sneaky but it
should work ;-p
Alternatively, you could use string.Split specifying new char[]
{'=',';'}

Marc

[Freiddy]

On Mar 18, 2:32 pm, "Marc Gravell" <marc.grav...@g mail.comwrote:

Random thought; this matches the syntaz for a connection string, so
just set this as the ConnectionStrin g of a DbConnectionStr ingBuilder
instance, and you can parse the keys and item members. Sneaky but it
should work ;-p
Alternatively, you could use string.Split specifying new char[]
{'=',';'}

Marc

The second method should also involve string.Trim() because there is
the chance of spaces between the semicolons.

Freiddy
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http://freiddy.blogspot.com/\

[VJ]

Good idea. Not sneaky at all, just being smart about what data we are
handling and trying to do quick, easy and efficient solution.

VJ

"Marc Gravell" <ma**********@g mail.comwrote in message
news:11******** **************@ l75g2000hse.goo glegroups.com.. .

Random thought; this matches the syntaz for a connection string, so
just set this as the ConnectionStrin g of a DbConnectionStr ingBuilder
instance, and you can parse the keys and item members. Sneaky but it
should work ;-p
Alternatively, you could use string.Split specifying new char[]
{'=',';'}

Marc

[Tom Dacon]

Split on the semicolon, then loop through the output array splitting on the
equals sign.

Tom Dacon
Dacon Software Consulting

"Jeff Williams" <je***********@ hardsoft.com.au wrote in message
news:12******** *****@corp.supe rnews.com...

>I have a string which is formated like this

Name1=Value1; Name2=Value2; Name3=Value3

I need to split this to an array of

Name1=Value1
Name2=Value2
Name3=Value3

What is the best way to split the Name and Values so I can place them into
an array.

Regards
Jeff

[Otis Mukinfus]

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:14:44 -0500, "VJ" <no***********@ yahoo.comwrote:

>Good idea. Not sneaky at all, just being smart about what data we are
handling and trying to do quick, easy and efficient solution.

VJ

"Marc Gravell" <ma**********@g mail.comwrote in message
news:11******* *************** @l75g2000hse.go oglegroups.com. ..

>Random thought; this matches the syntaz for a connection string, so
just set this as the ConnectionStrin g of a DbConnectionStr ingBuilder
instance, and you can parse the keys and item members. Sneaky but it
should work ;-p
Alternativel y, you could use string.Split specifying new char[]
{'=',';'}

Marc

Not if you want a maintenance programmer or debugging person to be able to
understand what you did.

Just my $.02 worth...

Good luck with your project,

Otis Mukinfus

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[Marc Gravell]

Not if you want a maintenance programmer or debugging person to be able to

understand what you did.

There will be a lot less to debug in the first place if you re-use
tried-and-trusted code... and comments, e.g.

// expected input: key1=value1; key2=value2; key3=value3
// output: StringDictionar y of parsed values from input

// use DbConnectionStr ingBuilder to parse input string
DbConnectionStr ingBuilder builder = new DbConnectionStr ingBuilder();
StringDictionar y dict = new StringDictionar y();
builder.Connect ionString = value;
foreach(string key in builder.Keys) {
dict.Add(key, builder[key]);
}
Marc