String Manipulation

Jay

Hi Everyone!

I was wondering if someone could help me. I have some long strings that have words that are delimited by a semi-colon and I want to divide the words and put them into a list if possible. For example, I have a string like this: ships in 2 boxes; great value; on sale; this item includes free shipping; buy one get one free

I want to manipulate this string to something like:

ships in 2 boxes
on sale
this item includes free shipping
buy one get one free

or something similar. Could someone please give me a tip and point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance

Jay

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Alan18y ago
Accepted answer
You can use the String.Split() method for this:

      string text = "ships in 2 boxes; great value; on sale; this item includes free shipping; buy one get one free";
      string[] items = text.Split(new string[]{"; "}, StringSplitOptions.None);
      foreach(string item in items)
      {
         Console.WriteLine(item);
      }

To convert the array to a list:

List list = new List(items);
Jay18y ago
Awsome!!! Thank you so much!