Question Array Value Removal problem

[mBe]

Hi guys,

I got a small problem with an array where I simply do not know how I could solve that issue. Im currently working on a backup program and want to read file paths into an array, for that I created a text file containing all paths of my folders separated by "|"'s

Example: "folderpath1\blablabla|folderpath2\blublublub|"

Unfortunately I also got a | at the end of the last path, meaning if I read that now into an array, the last array data will just be an empty string.

Now my question is, how can I remove that last position of my array the best? Or is there a way to just ignore the last position when filling data into the array?

Thanks in advance for your help

 

[GendoIkari]

You can remove the final "|" before you do the split:

if temp.SubString(temp.length - 1, 1) = "|" then
array = temp.SubString(0, temp.length - 1).Split("|")
else
array = temp.Split("|")
end if

 

[demausdauth]

or you could just do

array = temp.Split("|",StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)

which will drop the empty entries