Delimited Strings

[Guest]

Supposing I have a string containing fields delimited by | (pipe) such as:

this|is|a|string|delimited|by|pipes

If I wanted to get the portion of the string between the 3rd and 4th pipe,
I would have to start at the beginning of the entire string and inspect each
character to see if it is a pipe. Once I found the 3rd pipe, I could begin
parsing the string until a 4th pipe is discovered.

Is there a simpler and more elegant way to do this? There must be...

Thanks,
Mark

 

[Mark Jones]

regex.split

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

regex.split

.... or 'Strings.Split' (in VB.NET).

 

[Chris, Master of All Things Insignificant]

But your way will be the fastest since you know what you are going for.

You can use:

String.Split(Seperator as char, count as integer) as string()

That does the same thing you do, and returns an array of strings

Chris

 

[Guest]

Thanks!!

Mark