How to break a string at each comma?

Question

Hi guys I have a problem at hand that I can\'t seem to figure out, I have a string (C#) which looks like this:

string tags = \"cars, motor, whee         


        

Answer 1

Program that splits on spaces [C#]

using System;
class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        string s = "there, is, a, cat";
        string[] words = s.Split(", ".ToCharArray());
    foreach (string word in words)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(word);
    }
    }
}

Output

there
is
a
cat

Reference

Answer 2

No loop needed. Just a call to Split():

var individualStrings = tags.Split(new string[] { ", " }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

Answer 3

You are looking for the C# split() function.

string[] tags = tags.Split(',');

Edit:

string[] tag = tags.Trim().Split(new string[] { ", " }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

You should definitely use the form supplied by Justin Niessner. There were two key differences that may be helpful depending on the input you receive:

1. You had spaces after your ,s so it would be best to split on ", "

2. StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries will remove the empty entry that is possible in the case that you have a trailing comma.

Answer 4

You can use one of String.Split methods

Split Method (Char[])
Split Method (Char[], StringSplitOptions)
Split Method (String[], StringSplitOptions)

let's try second option: I'm giving , and space as split chars then on each those character occurrence input string will be split, but there can be empty strings in the results. we can remove them using StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries parameter.

string[] tagArray = tags.Split(new char[]{',', ' '},
                               StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

OR

 string[] tagArray = s.Split(", ".ToCharArray(), 
                               StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

you can access each tag by:

foreach (var t in tagArray )
{
    lblTags.Text = lblTags.Text + " " + t; // update lable with tag values 
    //System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(t); // this result can be see on your VS out put window 
}

Answer 5

string[] words = tags.Split(',');

Answer 6

make use of Split function will do your task...

string[] s = tags.Split(',');

or

String.Split Method (Char[], StringSplitOptions)

char[] charSeparators = new char[] {',',' '};
string[] words = tags.Split(charSeparators, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);