StringBuilder.Split in Delphi?

Question

Anyone know of a good Split procedure that uses StringBuilder in Delphi?

Answer 1

You might be better off using TStringlist.DelimitedText (or any other non-abstract TStrings sub-class). It's more of the traditional Delphi way of achieving what string.Split does in .Net (assuming I remember correctly).

e.g. To split on a pipe | character

var
  SL : TStrings;
  i : integer;
begin
  SL := TStringList.Create;
  try
    SL.Delimiter := '|';
    SL.StrictDelimiter := True;
    SL.DelimitedText := S;
    for i := SL.Count - 1 do
    begin
      // do whatever with sl[i];
    end;
  finally
   SL.Free;
  end;
end;

You may need to handle the QuoteChar property as well

Answer 2

You can also Look at my answer to this question for a general purpose utility functions GetStringPart and NumStringParts that allow you to perform split type operations.