I have a program where an array gets its data using string.Split(char[] delimiter).
(using ';' as delimiter.)
Some of the values, though, are null. I.e. the string has parts where there is no data so it does something like this:
1 ;2 ; ; 3;
This leads to my array having null values.
How do I get rid of them?
Try this:
yourString.Split(new string[] {";"}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
You could use the Where linq extension method to only return the non-null or empty values.
string someString = "1;2;;3;";
IEnumerable<string> myResults = someString.Split(';').Where<string>(s => !string.IsNullOrEmpty(s));
public static string[] nullLessArray(string[] src)
{
Array.Sort(src);
Array.Reverse(src);
int index = Array.IndexOf(src, null);
string[] outputArray = new string[index];
for (int counter = 0; counter < index; counter++)
{
outputArray[counter] = src[counter];
}
return outputArray;
}
You should replace multiple adjacent semicolons with one semicolon before splitting the data.
This would replace two semicolons with one semicolon:
datastr = datastr.replace(";;",";");
But, if you have more than two semicolons together, regex would be better.
datastr = Regex.Replace(datastr, "([;][;]+)", ";");
words = poly[a].Split(charseparators, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
foreach (string word in words)
{
richTextBox1.Text += (d + 1)+ " " + word.Trim(',')+ "\r\n";
d++;
}
charseparators is a space