Question

Hi i started to work with linq and i have some trouble to split an string:

This is the string:

a;b;cod1;xx|a;b;cod2;xx|a;b;cod3;xx|a;b;cod4;xx

first i split the sring by the ‘|’ character so i got this result

a;b;cod1;xx
a;b;cod2;xx
a;b;cod3;xx
a;b;cod4;xx

and then i split again by the ‘;’ in the second index to have this result in to a list

cod1
cod2
cod3
cod4

so there is a better way to do this using linq ¿?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can use Select to put your code into one line (but you still have to use String.Split):

var s = "a;b;cod1;xx|a;b;cod2;xx|a;b;cod3;xx|a;b;cod4;xx";
var resultlist = s.Split('|').Select(x => x.Split(';')[2]).ToList();

so you don’t have to use for/foreach loops.