Question

I hava a php file on my server that sends the information in a string like this to my app(c#):

Text|Name|Date|Text|Name|Date|Text|Name|Date|……now I want to split it so, that I can fill a ListViewerItem with Text, Name and Date, the next combination of this three(Text, Name, Date) should go in a new ListViewerItem.
How can I split the string only every third time at “|” ?

Answer 1

Just split on the pipe symbol and loop with a take of 3:

public void Foo(string content)
{
    var entries = content.Split('|');

    for(int i = 0; i < entries.Length; i += 3)
    {
        var text = entries[0 + i];
        var name = entries[1 + i];
        var date = entries[2 + i];

        // TODO: add values to listview.
    }
}