Parse and split string

[Guest]

Hi,
I have problem with string parsing. I have string for ex.:

"abc def" abc def

and I need string array:

abc def
abc
def

I tried to use Regex class and Split function, but I don't know how do it (
I don't know pattern format for split)

 

[Scott M.]

I'm not sure why below, when you tell us what your string is, you have some
of it in quotes and some not.

What exactly is the starting string: "abc def" or "abc def abc def"?

Here are some thoughts

[VB.NET]
dim theString As String = "abc def"
dim theResultString As String = theString.split(" ")
Dim theFinalStuff As Array(2)
theFinalStuff(0) = theString
theFinalStuff(1) = theResultString(0)
theFinalStuff(2) = theResultString(1)

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

I'm not sure why below, when you tell us what your string is, you have some
of it in quotes and some not.

What exactly is the starting string: "abc def" or "abc def abc def"?

The way I understand it, the initial string is

"abc def" abc def

which should be split into

abc def
abc
def

None of the above are string literals with extra quotes - that's the
actual data.

Just my understanding of it...

 

[William Stacey [MVP]]

Here is a general purpose SplitQuoted method that will split on multiple
delimiters and ignore any of the delimiters inside double quotes. So things
like:
"one , two", three four

will split to three fields as you may want (assuming space and comma " ," is
the delim string)
..
http://spaces.msn.com/members/staceyw/Blog/cns!1pnsZpX0fPvDxLKC6rAAhLsQ!352.entry

Things like:
one,,,two
one two

Will split to two fields ignoring multiple delimiters in a row. So if you
want the empty fields, put empty string in quotes such as:
one,"","","",two.

HTH