Question

I have a string,

string aString = "a,aaa,aaaa,aaaaa,,,,,";

Where i want to insert to a List..But when i do using the following method,

List<string> aList = new List<string>();

aList.AddRange(aString.Split(new string[] { "," }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries));

MessageBox.Show(aList.Count.ToString());

I get the count as only 4, But there are actually 8 elements even the final characters in between the (,) sign is blank.

But if i pass the string as shown below,

string aString = "a,aaa,aaaa,aaaaa, , , , ,";

It will be shown as 8 elements..Please help me on this, the default way thw program retrieves the string is like so,

a,aaa,aaaa,aaaaa,,,,,

Please help on this one, It would be great if i could add spaces to the empty area or any other way so that i could add all these characters in between (,) sign to the list.. even the blank areas. Thank you 🙂

Answer 1

Don’t use StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries

string aString = "a,aaa,aaaa,aaaaa,,,,,";
var newStr = String.Join(", ", aString.Split(','));