C# string parsing question

Question

I'm trying to split a string:

 string f = r.ReadToEnd();
 string[] seperators = new string[] {"[==========]"};
 string[] result;
result = f.Split(seperators, StringSplitOptions.None);

There's this ========== thing that separates entries. For the life of me, I can't get this to work. I've got a ruby version working...BUT using the string splitter classes I thought I knew for .NET doesn't seem to be working so well.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

You said that the separator is ========== but you're using [==========]. Try this:

string f = r.ReadToEnd();
string[] seperators = new string[] {"=========="};
string[] result;
result = f.Split(seperators, StringSplitOptions.None);

Answer 2

When I ran your code with the following modification:

string f = "string1[==========]string2[==========]string3";
string[] seperators = new string[] { "[==========]" };
string[] result;
result = f.Split(seperators, StringSplitOptions.None);
foreach (string x in result) Console.WriteLine(x);

The function writes out the strings as expected. I'd look at the contents of your file more closely - perhaps there is something in the encoding, or some other character that is missing when you devise a separator to work in C#/Windows.