String Split Problem

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I'm building a parser and I have a problem when it comes to string.split().

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Dim currentstring As String
currentstring = "'They are running, John','the dogs'" 
currentstring.split(",")

When I split the string it will split the commas in between the apostrophes too. Is there any way to get around that so it will only split the ones out side the apostrophes?

Posted 14-Jan-12 11:34am

olivewarbler

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CPallini · Answer 1 · 2012-01-14T11:54:00

Solution 1

String.Split cannot cope with this. You should probably use the Regex class[^].

Posted 14-Jan-12 11:54am

CPallini

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olivewarbler 14-Jan-12 21:19pm

I've never used it before, how would you use it for that?

thatraja 15-Jan-12 0:08am

5!

thatraja · Answer 2 · 2012-01-14T18:07:00

Solution 2

Agree with Carlo. Check this sample & modify it based on your need.
C# Regex Split - everything inside square brackets[^]

Posted 14-Jan-12 18:07pm

thatraja

Amir Mahfoozi · Answer 3 · 2012-01-14T21:27:00

Solution 3

Have you tried this :

C#

string currentstring = "'They are running, John','the dogs'";
string[] result = Regex.Split(currentstring, ",(?=(?:[^']*'[^']*')*[^']*$)");

Extracted from here :
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3147836/c-sharp-regex-split-commas-outside-quotes[^]

Posted 14-Jan-12 21:27pm

Amir Mahfoozi