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Reputation: 125435

Split string into Dictionary key and Value

I am trying to split a response (string) received from a camera into keys and values. This is what the string from IP camera look like:

{"error":0,"session":678939290,"group":131071}

I want to Split them into keys and arrays without the "". For ecample:

Keys <---- >Values

error 0

session 678939290

group 131071

Below is the code I currently use:

string tempResponse = serverResponse;


        //Remove Left and Right curly braces
        tempResponse = tempResponse.Replace("{", "");
        tempResponse = tempResponse.Replace("}", "");

        //Remove '"' from the string
        tempResponse = tempResponse.Replace("\"", "");

        //Now Make sure that there is no Space begining and end of the string
        tempResponse = tempResponse.TrimStart().TrimEnd();


        var items = tempResponse.Split(new[] { ',' }, StringSplitOptions.None)
    .Select(s => s.Split(new[] { ':' }));

        Dictionary<string, string> camInfoDICT = null; //Stores the camInfo as keys and values
        camInfoDICT = new Dictionary<string, string>();
        foreach (var item in items)
        {
            try
            {
                camInfoDICT.Add(item[0], item[1]);
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Debug.Log("Exception " + e.Message);
            }
        }

It works. The code functions as expected and I was able to extract the information from camInfoDICT as Keys and Values.

The problem is that it is throwing an Exception of Exception Array index is out of range. in 

 foreach (var item in items)
            {
                try
                {
                    camInfoDICT.Add(item[0], item[1]);
                }
                catch (Exception e)
                {
                    Debug.Log("Exception " + e.Message);
                }
            }

Where did I go wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 778

Answers (1)

Habib
Habib

Reputation: 223322

Instead of doing manual parsing, use Json convert. The string is a JSON string. You can use any available JSON deserializers, for example with Newtonsoft JSON parser it would be:

string jsonString = "{\"error\":0,\"session\":678939290,\"group\":131071}";
Dictionary<string, int> camInfoDICT = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<string, int>>(jsonString);

To include Netwonsoft JSON, use Nugget Package Manager in Visual Studio.

Upvotes: 7

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