C#•9mo ago

❔ ✅ Parsing path into parts with varying separators?

The traditional way to do this would be

string myPath = "C:\\Users\\Me\\Desktop";
string[] myPathParts = myPath.Split(Path.DirectorySeparatorChar);

string myPath = "C:\\Users\\Me\\Desktop";
string[] myPathParts = myPath.Split(Path.DirectorySeparatorChar);

But what if the path uses / instead of \ because as far as I am aware Windows will understand this, but that wouldn't be the DirectorySeparatorChar? Thanks!

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cap5lut•9mo ago

there is an overload that takes multiple characters to split on https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.string.split?view=net-7.0#system-string-split(system-char())

String.Split Method (System)

Returns a string array that contains the substrings in this instance that are delimited by elements of a specified string or Unicode character array.

MODiX•9mo ago

cap5lut

REPL Result: Success

"a:\\b/c".Split('\\', '/')

"a:\\b/c".Split('\\', '/')

Result: string[]

[
  "a:",
  "b",
  "c"
]

[
  "a:",
  "b",
  "c"
]

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Pokey•9mo ago

Aha... I feel stupid now haha Thank you

cap5lut•9mo ago

glad i could help, if ur question is answered please mark the thread as such by $closing it

MODiX•9mo ago

Use the /close command to mark a forum thread as answered

Pokey•9mo ago

Aha I was trying to find how you're meant to do that, thanks again 😛

Accord•9mo ago

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❔ ✅ Parsing path into parts with varying separators?