What's the best way to split a string into just two parts using a single-char separator?
The string should be split on the first instance of the separator. The method should consider performance. It shouldn't assume that the separator exists in the string, that the string has any characters, etc; should be general-purpose code you can just plug in wherever you need.
(It always takes me a few minutes to rewrite this sort of thing whenever I need it, so I thought I'd make a question for it)
If you really want to have just two results, use the string split method with a 2nd parameter:
string[] words = myString.Split(new char[]{' '}, 2);
Split() - that's exactly what I want.myString.Split(new char[]{' '},2) ?var part1 = myString.SubString(0, myString.IndexOf(''));
var part2 = myString.SubString(myString.IndexOf(''), myString.Lenght);
string[] SplitStringInTwo(string input, char separator)
{
string[] results = new string[2];
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(input)) return results;
int splitPos = input.IndexOf(separator);
if (splitPos <= 0) return results;
results[0] = input.Substring(0, splitPos);
if (splitPos<input.Length)
results[1] = input.Substring(splitPos + 1);
return results;
}
(It always takes me a few minutes to rewrite this sort of thing whenever I need it, so I thought I'd make a question for it)
If you need this frequently, you could convert your preferred way of doing it into an extension method. Based on Teoman Soygul's suggestion:
public static class StringExtensions
{
public static string[] TwoParts(this String str, char splitCharacter)
{
int splitIndex = str.IndexOf(splitCharacter);
if(splitIndex == -1)
throw new ArgumentException("Split character not found.");
return new string[] {
str.SubString(0, splitIndex),
str.SubString(splitIndex, myString.Lenght) };
}
}
