Help with splitting string

16y2.8kLearn iOS Programming

Hello,

My name is JR and I am writing a small application that I use to communicate with my Arduino board (www.arduino.cc). Communication is done using serial commands.

I want to split a string based on another string. For example:

string SerialIn = "Button1[e]Button2[e]Button3[e]Button4[e]"
string Footer = "[e]"

So I get:

Button1
Button2
Button3
Button4

I've tried the split function but this allow me to split based on chars and not a specific sequence of chars (string).

Anyone who has some advice?

Thanks in advance,

JR

2 Replies

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Jure16y ago
This should do it:

            string SerialIn = "Button1[e]Button2[e]Button3[e]Button4[e]";
            string Footer = "[e]";

            string[] splitted = SerialIn.Split(new string[] { Footer },
                StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

            foreach (string str in splitted)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(str);
            }
            Console.ReadKey();

You have probably just missed an overload (there are 6 of them).

EDIT: Glad you solved it.
JR16y ago
Ok, I solved it:

BufferIn = comport.ReadExisting();

                            string[] DataArray = BufferIn.Split(new string[] { TxtReceiveHeader.Text }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

                            if (DataArray.Length > 0)

                                for (int i = 0; i < DataArray.Length-1; i++)
                                {
                                    Debug.WriteLine(DataArray[i]);
                                }

Cheers