Check whether there is a space before and after a character to perform string splitting

Question

I am trying to split a string based on the - character and insert the words before and after the - character into a list (result) both words with different indexes. What I am trying to achieve is to check whether there is a space before and after the character -. If there is space found, perform the splitting as mentioned earlier. Otherwise, if there is no space before or after -, do not perform any splitting.

Example:

String1 = London - United Kingdom

String2 = Paris-France

Split String1 and insert London with index(0) and United Kingdom with index(1) into the result list because there is space before and after the -

Do not split String 2 and insert Paris-France with index(0)because there is no space before and after -.

Code:

        Dim result As New List(Of String)()

        For Each str_get As String In Split

            If (str_get.IndexOf("\t-\t")) Then

                Dim splitStr = str_get.Split({"-", "/"}, StringSplitOptions.None) 

                For Each str_split As String In splitStr 'Add to result list

                    result.Add(str_split.Trim()) ' Enter into result list

                    ' result.TrimExcess()
                Next

            Else


            End If

Split Is a string which may be considered as an array of strings. The For loop is to take each string in that Array and check it.

Any Thoughts or suggestions ?

Answer 1

Simply try splitting on " - " instead of "-". It should work

EDIT:

Ok, just verified that String.Split doesn't work that way (with a String separator)

This will work:

splitStr = Regex.Split(str_get, " - ")

Demo on Ideone