How can I split a string without know the seperator?

[DeltaWolf7]

If i have a list of string like this;

000.000.000.000 <1 space> www.msn.com
000.000.000.001 <3 spaces> www.something.net
000.000.000.002 <2 spaces> www.new.co.uk
000.000.000.003 <3 spaces> www.new.co.uk

ETC. Note the space are actual spaces in the real thing, the number showing how many between ip and hostname.

How can I split these up so that I can make a word list from them?

I would like the output to be something like this;

msn|1
something|1
new|2

ETC, plus the number of time they occured seperated someway.

I made a program to do this in Visual DialogScript, but in vb.net it seems to be complicated to me.

Thank you

 

[ManicCW]

split on space then trim string. simple.

 

[jmcilhinney]

String.Split is overloaded. The following code will popup two messages that both say "2":

Dim str1 As String = "Hello World"
Dim str2 As String = "Hello   World"

MessageBox.Show(str1.Split(New Char() {" "c}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).Length.ToString())
MessageBox.Show(str2.Split(New Char() {" "c}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).Length.ToString())

 

[vendiddy]

You could also use regular expressions:

Dim strLine as String = "a b    c  d 1 2   3"
Dim strSplit() as String = System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegEx.Split(strLine, " +")

Remember there's a space before the plus sign. The " +" is a regular expression. If you want to split it not just based on spaces, maybe periods, spaces, and slashes, you could use something like "[ ./]+" instead of " +". Then if you had "a.b.c d.1/2//3", you would still get an array like {a,b,c,d,1,2,3}.