Question

I am trying to parse the following string and get the result.

string test = "SiteA:Pages:1,SiteB:Pages:4,SiteA:Documents:6"

I am trying to get the following result after the split.

string SiteA = "Pages:1,Documents:6"
string SiteB = "Pages:4"

Here is my code but it doesn’t seem to be working. How can I get all related “SiteA” and “SiteB”?

List<string> listItem = new List<string>();
string[] keyPairs = test.Split(',');
string[] item;
foreach (string keyPair in keyPairs)
{
    item = keyPair.Split(':');
    listItem.Add(string.Format("{0}:{1}", item[0].Trim(), item[1].Trim()));
}

Answer 1

Here is my code:

string test = "SiteA:Pages:1,SiteB:Pages:4,SiteA:Documents:6";
string[] data = test.Split(',');
Dictionary<string, string> dic = new Dictionary<string, string>();
for(int i = 0; i < data.Length; i++) {
    int index = data[i].IndexOf(':');
    string key = data[i].Substring(0, index);
    string value = data[i].Substring(index + 1);
    if(!dic.ContainsKey(key))
        dic.Add(key, value);
    else
        dic[key] = string.Format("{0}, {1}", new object[] { dic[key], value }); 
}