Question

I’ve got a .NET 3.5 web application written in C# doing some URL rewriting that includes a file path, and I’m running into a problem. When I call string.Split('/') it matches both ‘/’ and ‘\’ characters. Is that… supposed to happen? I assumed that it would notice that the ASCII values were different and skip it, but it appears that I’m wrong.

// url = 'someserver.com/user/token/files\subdir\file.jpg
string[] buffer = url.Split('/');

The above code gives a string[] with 6 elements in it… which seems counter intuitive. Is there a way to force Split() to match ONLY the forward slash? Right now I’m lucky, since the offending slashes are at the end of the URL, I can just concatenate the rest of the elements in the string[], but it’s a lot of work for what we’re doing, and not a great solution to the underlying problem.

Anyone run into this before? Have a simple answer? I appreciate it!

More Code:

url = HttpContext.Current.Request.Path.Replace("http://", "");
string[] buffer = url.Split('/');

Turns out, Request.Path and Request.RawUrl are both changing my slashes, which is ridiculous. So, time to research that a bit more and figure out how to get the URL from a function that doesn’t break my formatting. Thanks everyone for playing along with my insanity, sorry it was a misleading question!

Answer 1

When I try the following:

string url = @"someserver.com/user/token/files\subdir\file.jpg";
string[] buffer = url.Split('/');
Console.WriteLine(buffer.Length);

… I get 4. Post more code.