Question

This is as far as I have got. My thinking was to stuff the string into an array, format it and recast it into a string.

    //input search term
    Console.WriteLine("What is your search query?:");
    string searchTerm = Console.ReadLine();

    //stuff the search term into an array to split it out
    string separator = " "; //assumes search terms are separated by spaces
    string[] searchTermArray = searchTerm.Split(separator.ToCharArray());

    //construct the search term
    string searchTermFormat = "";

    for (int i = 0; i < searchTermArray.Length; i++)
    {
        searchTermFormat += searchTermArray[i] + "+";
        //Console.WriteLine(searchTermFormat);
    }

Desired output

word1+word2+word3

where the number of words are not fixed.

Answer 1

• You’re looking for String.Join("+", searchTermArray)
• You’re trying to write searchTerm.Replace(' ', '+')
• You probably should be writing Uri.EscapeDataString(searchTerm)