concatenated string spliting

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"AGRICULTURE(FOOD,GRAIN,WHEAT POOLS)AgPro Grain2"

I need to split that string in to 3 parts.

1) AGRICULTURE(FOOD,GRAIN,WHEAT POOLS)
2) AgPro Grain2
3) 2

I tried the following but nothing split the way I want.

C#

char seperator      = '_';

char[] seperator = new Char[] { '.' };
char[] seperator = new Char[] {'.'};

char[] seperator = new Char[] { ',', ' ' };
char[] seperator      = new char[]{};
char[] seperator      = new char[]{};
char seperator      = {};

What is the right syntax that can split it the way I want and return in the array?

Posted 23-Sep-11 7:45am

rajh7

Updated 23-Sep-11 7:48am

André Kraak

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Simon Bang Terkildsen 23-Sep-11 13:50pm

There is no rule, in your post, as to what should indicate that the string should be split.
Tells us exactly how you want your string to be split, as the post is right now you can't do what you want.

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2011-09-23T08:10:00

Solution 1

I would use a regex: This may not work exactly, it depends on your criteria, which you don't specify:

^(?<description>[^)]*\))(?<shortname>[^\d]*)(?<count>\d+)$</count></shortname></description>

This separates it into three groups.

Posted 23-Sep-11 8:10am

OriginalGriff

#realJSOP · Answer 2 · 2011-09-23T08:10:00

Your string doesn't have an identifiable pattern, so that means you're going to have to do it by hand. String.Split can only help a little.

C#

string  str = "AGRICULTURE(FOOD,GRAIN,WHEAT POOLS)AgPro Grain2";
string[] temp =  str.Split(')');
temp[0] += ")";
string temp2 = str.Substring(str.Length - 1);
string[3] result = new string("","","");
Array.Copy(temp, 0, result, 0, temp.Length);
result[2] = temp2;

That should give you what you want (may need to be tweaked because I didn't test it).