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Dominic K
Dominic K

Reputation: 7085

Splitting string only it meets requirements in C#

I'm trying to split a song title into two strings- the artist and song. I receive the original string like this: "artist - song". Using this code, I split the string using '-' as the spliiter:

    char[] splitter = { '-' };
    string[] songInfo = new string[2];
    songInfo = winAmp.Split(splitter);

This works fine and all, except when I get to a band with '-' in the name, like SR-71. However, since the original strings are separated with a space then a - and a space again (like SR-71 - Tomorrow), how would I split the string so this happens? I tried changing splitter to a string and inputting

        string[] splitter = { " - " };

in it, but it returns that there is no overload match.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 231

Answers (2)

rerun
rerun

Reputation: 25505

You can also use 

 Match M = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.match(str,"(.*?)\s-\s(.*)");
 string Group = M.Groups[1].Value;
 string Song = M.Groups[2].Value;

Upvotes: 0

SLaks
SLaks

Reputation: 888205

For some reason, string.Split has no overload that only takes a string array.

You need to call this overload:

string[] songInfo = winAmp.Split(new string[] { " - " }, StringSplitOptions.None);

Don't ask me why.

Upvotes: 2

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