Splitting an array into another array?

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I've tried googling this and looking at questions/answers on here but I'm not having much luck.

I have a list of values that I've already put into an array by splitting on the commas (","), but now I need to split on the colons (":"). I am at a loss for how to do this, everything I've tried so far hasn't working and I can't figure out how to fix it.

string AdditionalData = "Name: John, Age: 43, Location: California";
string[] firstData = AdditionalData.Split(',');

The above code is how far I've gotten - this works - but no matter what I try I can't figure out how to split the data on the colon. Basically, I'm looking to take the array "firstData" and make that into a new array.

Any help would be appreciated and apologies for the simplicity of the question, I'm new to this!

Side note: This is part of an asp.net mvc project if that is of any help, the tag was removed. the results are also displayed as a web page, not in the console.

You need to tell us what you expect the end data structure to be. It could be as simple as: AdditionalData.Split(new[] { ',', ':' }); — itsme86
– itsme86, Commented Jul 31, 2018 at 15:44
What do you actually want as an end result? i.e what are you trying to do with the data? — Stevo
– Stevo, Commented Jul 31, 2018 at 16:04
@SteveJ In the end I want to be able to take the values from the second split, i.e, "John","43","California" and assign them to a model that already exists. This preexisting model will then be displayed as part of another, larger model. — Chilly
– Chilly, Commented Jul 31, 2018 at 16:31

Any Moose · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-01 15:02:13Z

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Iterate each array item using a foreach loop.

foreach(string dataString in firstData)
{
  string[] temp = dataString.Split(':')
  //do something with the new array here
}

edited Aug 1, 2018 at 15:02

answered Jul 31, 2018 at 15:55

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Chilly Over a year ago

This worked beautifully and was by far the easiest for me to understand, thank you!

itsme86 Over a year ago

@Chilly Make sure Accept the answer that works for you. It helps people that find this question in the future and you get rep for it!

Chilly Over a year ago

@itsme86 yes I will do, I'm just in the habit of leaving things open for a day or so to allow people to answer, sometimes they don't when they see an accepted answer when it could be very useful :)

Xiaofeng Zheng · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-01 05:19:10Z

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I guess this is what you want, but I'm not sure.

var secondData = firstData.Select(str => str.Split(':'));

answered Aug 1, 2018 at 5:19

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