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Asked: 2026-05-12T14:02:31+00:00

I am trying to split at every space , but it will not let

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I am trying to split at every space ” “, but it will not let me remove empty entries and then find the length, but it is treated as a syntax error.

My code:

TextBox1.Text.Split(" ", StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).Length

What am I doing wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Well, the first parameter to the Split function needs to be an array of strings or characters. Try:

    TextBox1.Text.Split(New String() {" "}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).Length

    You might not have noticed this before when you didn’t specify the 2nd parameter. This is because the Split method has an overload which takes in a ParamArray. This means that calls to Split("string 1", "string 2", "etc") auto-magically get converted into a call to Split(New String() {"string 1", "string 2", "etc"})

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