Question

Am trying to get values from a text file in which entries are delimited using ‘|‘.am getting the values using string .Split method..but in some places the delimiter appears multiple times in succession like ‘||||||||‘,so empty space gets inserted in the array how should i remove those empty elements from array or is there any efficient technique to read values from text file delimited by ‘|”.below is my code and the screen shot of array values

 var reader = new StreamReader(File.OpenRead(@"d:\er.txt"));
        while (!reader.EndOfStream)
        {
            var line = reader.ReadLine().Trim();
            var values = line.Split('|');
            string[] ee = values;

        }

can any one suggest a better method for reading data from text file delimited by ‘|’

Answer 1

Split has an overload that takes a StringSplitOptions enumeration value:

var values = line.Split(new char[]{'|'}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

This will remove empty entries.