Unable to manipulate string

Question

In my website i have a script that return the current song that playing from my shoutcast server in a format of: "artist-track", what i want to do is to take that string and split it to 2 strings: artist and track, in order to do that i wrapped the script in server tag like this:

<div id="nowPlaying" runat="server">
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://shoutcast.mixstream.net/js/song/uk3-free:34588"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;     
</div>

and on code behind i did somthing like this:

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)

        Dim query() As String = nowPlaying.InnerText.Split("-")
        Dim artist As String = query(0)
        Dim track As String = query(1)
        Response.Write(artist + "<br />" + track)

    End Sub

the problem is that for some reason the string array is allways empty in fact i am unable to do any manipulation at all (remove, substring. lastIndexOf etc.) it allways seems to be empty.

but if i dont do any manipulation on the string everything is ok and i can see the string like this:

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)

        Dim query As String = nowPlaying.InnerText
        Response.Write(query)

 End Sub

any ideas why?

Answer 1

Try:

Dim query() As String = nowPlaying.InnerText.Split(New [Char]() {"-"c})

Answer 2

Bit of a stab but try:

Dim sTrim as String = nowPlaying.InnerText
sTrim=sTrim.Replace("document.write('","")
sTrim=sTrim.SubString(0,sTrim.length-3)
Dim query() As String = sTrim.Split("-")

Answer 3

Use this...

Dim request As HttpWebRequest = WebRequest.Create("http://shoutcast.mixstream.net/js/song/uk3-free:34588")
Dim response As HttpWebResponse = request.GetResponse()
Dim reader As StreamReader = New StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())
Dim sTrim = reader.ReadToEnd()

reader.Close()
sTrim=sTrim.Replace("document.write('","")
sTrim=sTrim.SubString(0,sTrim.length-3)
Dim query() As String = sTrim.Split("-")

This loads the js file as a string and then removes the document.write syntax to leave you just artist-tile.