The MSDN library says this is the format. However my compiler does not like it. I keep getting all kinds (like 13 errors) of crap about missing ;, ), or ].


 string s = payrollStreamReader.ReadLine();
 string ss = s.Split([""[, 2]])

where "" is my seperator and 2 is the limit for the array the elements are stored into. (As I understand it)

Help? Easier way? Also these seperate string are to be stored into another array of structs. I dont know if that helps anyone...

Seymour/

Hmmm. Split() automatically returns an array and I am not quite sure why you are providing an array dimension??

In your case, I am not entirely sure how to do this. Normally if I want to split on a series of characters i would do

char[] c = {'\"', ';', ','} and then just place c as the value to split on. I don't know that you can place 2 characters as a single element in a char array, but you can try it. What would work would be something like

string s = payrollStreamReader.ReadLine();
s = s.Replace('\"\"', '\"');
string[] ss = s.Split(new char[]{'\"'});

BTW, the reason you were getting the missing ; error was because you didn't escape the " as i have done in my above example.

hth.

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I cant tell if what you wrote is what i meant, or vice versa.

My objective is to simply split that readline() into two parts. The line it is reading will consist of "FIRSTNAME LASTNAME" , which i want to split up and put into their respective label. i.e firstname goes to one label, while lastname goes to another. I bear in mind that my method is probably far from the smartest or most efficient, but i havent really learned to manipulate strings in c# that much.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

OK i got everything working good except that it randomly crashes having something to do with the array, it indexes everything except the last one, and sometimes(why?) crashes as soon as i compile it for the same reason...heres the error message...

An unhandled exception of type 'System.IndexOutOfRangeException' occurred in PayrollAssgn.exe

Additional information: Index was outside the bounds of the array.

any ideas??? it is setting off my catch block even though everything seems to be running fine inside my try..except the crashing part of course...

This is straight out of the "Beginning Visual C#" book from wrox.

private string strValue = " ";
private string s = " ";

//Cuts string into seperate words (char ?)
char[] separator = { ' ' };
string[] s;
s = strValue.Split(separator);
foreach (string word in s)
{
Console.Write("{0}" + " ", word);

Its crashing as there is a possiblity when you are splitting the value, the ' ' is not present. Therefore, only 1 value is returned.

So (as in joefawcett's example) names[0] will be the original text and names[1] is out of the range (as only 1 value exists).

It might be worth checking the size of the split before outputting the values:

IndexOutOfRangeException means (quite obviously) that you have referenced an index in the array which doesn't exist.

I hope this helps.

Dominic