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Justin Oke
Justin Oke

Reputation: 13

C# How can I store a user entered phrase into a string array?

I am writing a program to scramble a user entered phrase. I have most of it coded, but I want to store the string of the user entered phrase into and array, with each word of the phrase stored as a separate element. It seems like it would be a simple thing to do, but I just can't think of a way to do it. Can someone help me?

This is what it looks like so far:

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        bool success = false;
        string phrase = "";
        string [] phraseArray;

        Console.WriteLine("Welcome to the Word Scrambler!\n\n");
        do
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Enter a phrase between 10 and 60 character long:\n\t");
            phrase = Console.ReadLine();
            if (phrase.Length - 1 <= 10 || phrase.Length - 1 >= 60)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("You must enter a phrase with a length between 10 and 60!");
                success = false;
            }
            phraseArray = new string[phrase.Length - 1];

            // String (phrase) into string [] phraseArray ?

            Console.WriteLine("See below for your scrambled phrase:");
            for (int i = 0; i < phrase.Length - 1; i++)
            {
                Console.Write("{0} ", phraseArray[i]);
            }

            Console.WriteLine("Press any key to scramble another word or the 'Esc' key to exit...");
            if (Console.ReadKey(true).Key == ConsoleKey.Escape)
                success = false;
        } while (!success);`

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1959

Answers (3)

Ringo
Ringo

Reputation: 3965

Every time you want to save phrase just do this: 

phrase+= inputString + ";";

After that you can split phrase into string array:

string[] yourStringArray = phrase.split(';');

Upvotes: 0

Damith
Damith

Reputation: 63065

phraseArray  = phrase.Split();

OR If you need to remove empty strings 

phraseArray  = phrase.Split(new char[] {' '}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

Upvotes: 1

gpmurthy
gpmurthy

Reputation: 2427

Consider the following...

string[] words = sentence.Split(' ');

Good Luck!

Upvotes: 2

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