Question

I currently got a problem with RCon.
I am basically sending a request to receive a list of all players.
The server answers with a list of all players like this:

#     IP:Port      Ping    ID          Name
0     127.0.0.1    0       3523523     Bob
12    192.168.0.1  120     342525523   Anna
320   192.168.0.2  240     63463634634 Chuck Norris
   ^^^           ^^   ^^^^^           ^

The problem is, I do not know how many spaces are between the different tags, it depends on how long the #/IP/ping and ID is.
The spaces can differ from 1 space to 5 spaces.
Also there can be spaces in the name so I can’t just split with one space.

I want to read the IP, ping, id and name from the list.
I currently try to do some messy replace & split stuff but it just doesn’t work out when the spaces are different.
I thought about doing something with regex but I am not so good with regex.
I already split the lines to cut it down to 1 line.
The class Player can store all the informations

Here is what should happen:

        // List to store all the players
        List<Player> players = new List<Player>();
        // Using a StringReader to split up every line
        StringReader reader = new StringReader(result);

        string line;
        int row = 0;
        // Processing every line one after another
        while ((line = reader.ReadLine()) != null)
        {
            row++;
            // Doing some filtering to prevent empty lines and other stuff
            if (row > 3 && !line.StartsWith("(") && line.Length > 0)
            {
                // Getting all the stuff I need here
                // Then adding a player object to save the informations, ignore status
                players.Add(new Player(ip, ping, id, name, status));
            }
        }

Anyone got an idea that could solve this?

Answer 1

Simplest way would be to split your line into 5 parts

var items = line.Split(new char[] {' '}, 5, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
players.Add(new Player(items[1], items[2], items[3], items[4], "status?"));