Question

How to Split and strip X string values into separate variables?

X has string value of

itemA=myvalue&itemB=anothervalue&itemC=andanother

I have 3 strings (var1,var2,var3) to hold the values of the stripped values.

Find in string X “itemA=” copy everything after “=” character until “&” character OR if no “&” character is found copy until end of string (store this value into var1)

Find in string X “itemB=” copy everything after “=” character until “&” character OR if no “&” character is found copy until end of string (store this value into var2)

Find in string X “itemB=” copy everything after “=” character until “&” character OR if no “&” character is found copy until end of string (store this value into var3)

Answer 1

Using System.Web.HttpUtility. You can use this even in a non Web application, if a reference to System.Web is not a problem.

var values = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(
    "itemA=myvalue&itemB=anothervalue&itemC=andanother");

Console.WriteLine(values["itemA"]);
Console.WriteLine(values["itemB"]);

You can list all the keys:

foreach (var key in values.AllKeys)
{
    Console.WriteLine(key);
}