Question

I have a function which reads a delimited file.

The delimiter is passed to the function by string argument. The problem is, when I pass the "\t" delimiter, it ends up like "\\t" and therefore, Split is unable to find this sequence.

How can I resolve this issue?

private void ReadFromFile(string filename, string delimiter)
{

        StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(filename, Encoding.Default);
        string[] firstLine = sr.ReadLine().Split(t.ToCharArray());

        .......
 }

Answer 1

I guess you are using something like

string sep = @"\t";

in this case sep will hold \\t double back slash

use string sep = "\t"

string content = "Hello\tWorld";
string sep = "\t";
string[] splitContent = content.Split(sep.ToCharArray());