Splitting string based on uneven number of white spaces

Question

I need to split a string that looks like this

1052 root         0 SW<  [hwevent]

into the following

1052
root
0
SW<
[hwevent]

sure, I could just whip up a forloop and compare character indices with white spaces and when the occurrence is not a white space, add the occurrence to a new string array but I feel like this is a really dirty way to do this.

What is a good way to split this string? Regex perhaps?

Answer 1

You may use StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptryEntries

string strtemp = "1052 root         0 SW<  [hwevent]";
string[] array = strtemp.Split(" ".ToCharArray(), StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

Answer 2

Yes, regex:

splitArray = Regex.Split(subjectString, @"\s+");

Explanation:

\s+ matches one or more whitespace characters at once, so it splits on any (positive) number of whitespace characters.