Question

I have a file with chinese content that I need to parse. Each post has some weird delimitter between fields and I am trying to isolate the fields but cannot recognize the delimitter.

Dim stringSplitter() as string = {" "}
Try
  sampleResults = entry.Split(stringSplitter,StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)

.....

A sample of the post content;

108087006686338t.qq.com/GAOCHUANG8899homeGAOCHUANG8899homehttp://t.qq.com/p/t/1080870066863382012-03-22 04:49:46

The separator starts after the first set of digits 108087006686338 DELIMITTER t.qq.com/GAOCHUANG8899home . I initially thought I could split it using json but this is definitely not json format.

Sorry when I post the original the delimitters disappear when making this post. The delimitter looks like a rectangular block

EDIT:

Ok using the hex editor I identified the character hex value as 01 and it looks like a period but the period has a value of 2E. Does this mean anything to anyone?

EDIT:

Reproducing the question: can I split a string based on a hex value. If the value is “01” then how would I split the string based on that value.

EDIT:

final answer:`

Dim hvalue as Char = Char(1)
Dim stringSplitter() as string = {hvalue}

Answer 1

Let’s say you have input $input and delimitter with ascii code of 01.

Perl:

my $input = ...
my @output = split(chr(01), $input);
print "$_\t" for @output; # print all items

The code above will split your $input into @output array, so then you can access items via

$output[0] # first item
$output[1] # second item
...
$#output + 1 # number of items

Visual-Studio-2010:

Dim hvalue as Char = Char(1)
Dim stringSplitter() as string = {hvalue}