Split String by logicals with Regex

Question

I've the following string:

string text = "Hello && my || Name & is | Tom"

Now I want to split the string into different parts without the logical operators between the words. I've tried the following, but I get only one string with the whole text.

String[] result= Regex.Split(text, @"\&&\||\&\|");

Whats wrong?

The expected output is an array with 5 strings:

• Hello
• my
• Name
• is
• Tom

Answer 1

No regex solution, just splitting:

String[] result = text.Split(new Char[] { '|', '&' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

Answer 2

Change your code to,

String[] result= Regex.Split(text, @"\s*[|&]+\s*");

This splits your input according to one or more | or & symbols. \s* matches zero or more spaces , and [|&]+ matches one or more | or & symbols.