Split a string by another string in C#

Question

I\'ve been using the Split() method to split strings, but this only appears to work if you are splitting a string by a character. Is there a way to split a

Answer 1

The easiest way is to use String.Replace:

string myString = "THExxQUICKxxBROWNxxFOX";
mystring = mystring.Replace("xx", ", ");

Or more simply:

string myString = "THExxQUICKxxBROWNxxFOX".Replace("xx", ", ");

Answer 2

Regex.Split(string, "xx")

is the way I do it usually.

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Of course you'll need:

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

or :

System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Split(string, "xx")

but then again I need that library all the time.

Answer 3

I generally like to use my own extension for that:

string data = "THExxQUICKxxBROWNxxFOX";
var dataspt = data.Split("xx");
//>THE  QUICK  BROWN  FOX 


//the extension class must be declared as static
public static class StringExtension
{   
    public static string[] Split(this string str, string splitter)
    {
        return str.Split(new[] { splitter }, StringSplitOptions.None);
    }
}

This will however lead to an Exception, if Microsoft decides to include this method-overload in later versions. It is also the likely reason why Microsoft has not included this method in the meantime: At least one company I worked for, used such an extension in all their C# projects.

It may also be possible to conditionally define the method at runtime if it doesn't exist.

Answer 4

The previous answers are all correct. I go one step further and make C# work for me by defining an extension method on String:

public static class Extensions
{
    public static string[] Split(this string toSplit, string splitOn) {
        return toSplit.Split(new string[] { splitOn }, StringSplitOptions.None);
    }
}

That way I can call it on any string in the simple way I naively expected the first time I tried to accomplish this:

"a big long string with stuff to split on".Split("g str");