Question

I’m looking through the functionality of the Split ability of Strings in c#, and I was wondering if there was a way that I could split a string based on number of characters rather than a specific delimiter?

For example, can I split “cat dog” in a way that would fill the first 7 slots in an array, since there are 6 characters and a space.

Or is it required that you specify a delimiter to split on?

Answer 1

Are you looking for String.ToCharArray()? That creates an array of characters…

However, bear in mind that string already supports both iteration and indexing anyway:

// Print every third character
for (int i = 0; i < text.Length; i += 3)
{
    Console.WriteLine(text[i]);
}

// Print each character
foreach (char c in text)
{
    Console.WriteLine(c);
}