Heyah Folks-

I am putting together a search engine for a project.

I have been chopping up keywords using String.Split, but realize it would be so much cooler if it wouldn't split words surrounded by quotes...for use in searches like this:

-"Radiohead Concert" Baltimore-

...and only patterns matching "Radiohead concert" would be used as criteria....

I have a feeling I am not going to have any luck with String.Split...are there teqniques for this anyone could share?

regards,

Ben

You are going to want to try regular expressions for this. Look into the System.Text.RegularExpressions namespace.

Alternatively, you can split on the double quotes first. This way, you end up with an array of "quoted searchstrings", which you can split individually as separate search entries.

I agree with Peter that regular expressions would be much more useful, but they can also be more difficult to learn at first.

Cheers,

Imar


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Imar Spaanjaars
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