Handling Strings

[johnvista]

Hello to everyone at VB.NET Fourms.
I need some help with handling strings.

Example of what I need:

• http://blahblahblah.com/wtf.gz|stargatetc*appone

How would I use visual basic.net 2005 to reconise the "|" and the "*" and seperate them so i end up with three strings:

• http://blahblahblah.com/wtf.gz
• stargatetc
• appone
  

Your help is much appreciated
thanks

 

[Bob Langlade]

        Dim ST As String = "http://blahblahblah.com/wtf.gz|stargatetc*appone"
        Dim Pos1 As Integer = ST.IndexOf("|")
        Dim Pos2 As Integer = ST.IndexOf("*")
        Dim ST1 As String = ST.Substring(0, Pos1)
        Dim ST2 As String = ST.Substring(Pos1 + 1, Pos2 - Pos1 - 1)
        Dim ST3 As String = ST.Substring(Pos2 + 1)
        Console.WriteLine(ST1 & vbCr & ST2 & vbCr & ST3)

 

[Craig]

        Dim Str As String = "http://blahblahblah.com/wtf.gz|stargatetc*appone"
        Dim SplitStr() As String
        Str = Str.Replace("|", "*")

        SplitStr = Str.Split("*")
        MsgBox(SplitStr(0) & vbCr & SplitStr(1) & vbCr & SplitStr(2))

EDIT: Looks like i was beaten to it

 

[johnvista]

:d

Thanks guys!
I must admit Craig yours did the job exactly, bob you missed out the appone bit

 

[JohnH]

You can split string by an array of delimiters like this:

[SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]Dim[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2] Str [/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]As [/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]String[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2] = [/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#800000]"http://blahblahblah.com/wtf.gz|stargatetc*appone"
[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]Dim[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2] spl() [/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]As [/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]String[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2] = Str.Split([/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]New [/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]Char[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2]() {[/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#800000]"|"[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2], [/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#800000]"*"[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2]})
[/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#008000]'spl(0) is now http://blahblahblah.com/wtf.gz
[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#008000]'spl(1) is now stargatetc
[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#008000]'spl(2) is now appone
[/COLOR][/SIZE]

By the way, the vertical bar (pipe) | is not valid in URL it must be encoded "%7c", in which case you could do this:

[SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]Dim[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2] Str [/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]As [/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2] [/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]String[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2] = [/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#800000]"http://blahblahblah.com/wtf.gz%7cstargatetc*appone"
[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2][/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]Dim[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2] spl() [/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]As [/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2] [/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]String[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2] = Str.Split([/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]New [/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2] [/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]String[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2]() {[/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#800000]"%7c"[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2], [/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#800000]"*"[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2]}, StringSplitOptions.None)
[/SIZE]