Question

I’m working on a program that will parse off chunks off data from a CSV file, and populate it into the attributes of an XML document. The data entry I’m working with looks like this…e11*70/157*1999/101*1090*04. I want to break that up, using the asterisks as the reference to split it into e11, 70/157, 1999/101, etc; so I can insert those values into the attributes of the XML. Would this be a situation appropriate for RegEx? Or would I be better off using Substring, with an index of *?

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Answer 1

You can use String.Split()

string[] words = @"e11*70/157*1999/101*1090*04".Split('*');