Question

I have a text file that looks like this and I’m splitting at each ‘|’.
In between the 3rd ‘|’ is two words that I need to split into two separate columns. Having trouble doing the split.

 Nbr| Address| Name   |Phone|City|State|Zip 
455 |gsgdgsg |fir last|434  |jk  |jh   |0393

I have something like this that is doing the split and writing the output to a list. Currently I can do the split and select the first part fine but when i do the split and select the second part I get index out of bounds of array error.

var Names = File
            .ReadAllLines(path)
            .Select(a => a.Split(new[] { '|' }, StringSplitOptions.None))
            .Select(a => new {
                phoneNbr = a[0].Trim(),
                Name = a[2].Trim().Split(' ')[0],
                Name2 = a[2].Trim().Split(' ')[1], //gives me error I think becuase it already split it
                addr = a[1].Trim()
            })
              .ToList(); 

Answer 1

You probably do not have two words in column three with index 2 with some record. You need to enusure you get two elements after split before using second element.

Change

Name2 = a[2].Trim().Split(' ')[1]

To

Name2 = a[2].Trim().Split(' ').Length > 1 ? a[2].Trim().Split(' ')[1] : ""