Easiest way to split a string on newlines in .NET?

Question

I need to split a string into newlines in .NET and the only way I know of to split strings is with the Split method. However that will not allow me to (easily) split on a ne

Answer 1

I just thought I would add my two-bits, because the other solutions on this question do not fall into the reusable code classification and are not convenient.

The following block of code extends the string object so that it is available as a natural method when working with strings.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;

namespace System
{
    public static class StringExtensions
    {
        public static string[] Split(this string s, string delimiter, StringSplitOptions options = StringSplitOptions.None)
        {
            return s.Split(new string[] { delimiter }, options);
        }
    }
}

You can now use the .Split() function from any string as follows:

string[] result;

// Pass a string, and the delimiter
result = string.Split("My simple string", " ");

// Split an existing string by delimiter only
string foo = "my - string - i - want - split";
result = foo.Split("-");

// You can even pass the split options parameter. When omitted it is
// set to StringSplitOptions.None
result = foo.Split("-", StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

To split on a newline character, simply pass "\n" or "\r\n" as the delimiter parameter.

Comment: It would be nice if Microsoft implemented this overload.