Question

I’m trying to split a song title into two strings- the artist and song.
I receive the original string like this: “artist – song”.
Using this code, I split the string using ‘-‘ as the spliiter:

    char[] splitter = { '-' };
    string[] songInfo = new string[2];
    songInfo = winAmp.Split(splitter);

This works fine and all, except when I get to a band with ‘-‘ in the name, like SR-71.
However, since the original strings are separated with a space then a – and a space again (like SR-71 – Tomorrow), how would I split the string so this happens? I tried changing splitter to a string and inputting

        string[] splitter = { " - " };

in it, but it returns that there is no overload match.

Answer 1

For some reason, string.Split has no overload that only takes a string array.

You need to call this overload:

string[] songInfo = winAmp.Split(new string[] { " - " }, StringSplitOptions.None);

Don’t ask me why.