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 ConnectionString of a DbConnectionStringBuilder
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]

Random thought; this matches the syntaz for a connection string, so
just set this as the ConnectionString of a DbConnectionStringBuilder
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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[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

 

[Tom Dacon]

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

Tom Dacon
Dacon Software Consulting

 

[Otis Mukinfus]

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

Random thought; this matches the syntaz for a connection string, so
just set this as the ConnectionString of a DbConnectionStringBuilder
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

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: StringDictionary of parsed values from input

// use DbConnectionStringBuilder to parse input string
DbConnectionStringBuilder builder = new DbConnectionStringBuilder();
StringDictionary dict = new StringDictionary();
builder.ConnectionString = value;
foreach(string key in builder.Keys) {
dict.Add(key, builder[key]);
}


Marc