Direct form MSDN Help on String.Split
Imports System
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
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Public Class StringSplit2
Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim delimStr As String = " ,.:"
Dim delimiter As Char() = delimStr.ToCharArray()
Dim words As String = "one two,three:four."
Dim split As String() = Nothing
Console.WriteLine("The delimiters are -{0}-", delimStr)
Dim x As Integer
For x = 1 To 5
split = words.Split(delimiter, x)
Console.WriteLine(ControlChars.Cr + "count = {0,2} ..............",
x)
Dim s As String
For Each s In split
Console.WriteLine("-{0}-", s)
Next s
Next x
End Sub 'Main
End Class 'StringSplit2
Hope it helps
Chris