Parsing a semicolon-separated list

Question

I have a semicolon-separated list of values, for example:

strins s = "param1=true;param2=4;param3=2.0f;param4=sometext;";

I need a functions:

public bool ExtractBool(string parameterName, string @params);
public int ExtractInt(string parameterName, string @params);
public float ExtractFloat(string parameterName, string @params);
public string ExtractString(string parameterName, string @params);

Is there a special functions in .net that can help me with semicolon-separated list ?

PS: parameter names are equal within a list.

Answer 1

As a starting point, what you need is the String.Split() method - it will split your string into a string array.

You'll find loads of examples of this all over the web.

Answer 2

For string better you can use Split(';');

You can try this for split comma

string s ="param1=true;param2=4;param3=2.0f;param4=sometext;";

string[] sArray = s.Split(';')

Answer 3

Here is a better way to do this and avoid having a whole bunch of empty array elements:

        string lsToString = "Your String Here";
        string[] laChars = { "," };
        string[] laTo = lsToString.Split(laChars, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

Makes it much easier to work with after you split the string because you don't have to worry about empty elements.

Pete