Question

I need to split user input on spaces in a console application I am making, but I’m not quite sure how to do it. I can’t just blindly split it because it will have quoted strings and stuff like that. What is a quick way to do this?

Or is there some way I can access the windows command-line parser and split it up using that?

Answer 1

User input in a console application is simply: Console.ReadLine().

You may want to try something like this:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Input please:");
    string input = Console.ReadLine();
    // Parse input with Regex (This splits based on spaces, but ignores quotes)
    Regex regex = new Regex(@"\w+|""[\w\s]*""");
}