Does C# have a String Tokenizer like Java's?

Question

I\'m doing simple string input parsing and I am in need of a string tokenizer. I am new to C# but have programmed Java, and it seems natural that C# should have a string tok

Answer 1

If you're trying to do something like splitting command line arguments in a .NET Console app, you're going to have issues because .NET is either broken or is trying to be clever (which means it's as good as broken). I needed to be able to split arguments by the space character, preserving any literals that were quoted so they didn't get split in the middle. This is the code I wrote to do the job:

private static List Tokenise(string value, char seperator)
{
    List result = new List();
    value = value.Replace("  ", " ").Replace("  ", " ").Trim();
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    bool insideQuote = false;
    foreach(char c in value.ToCharArray())
    {
        if(c == '"')
        {
            insideQuote = !insideQuote;
        }
        if((c == seperator) && !insideQuote)
        {
            if (sb.ToString().Trim().Length > 0)
            {
                result.Add(sb.ToString().Trim());
                sb.Clear();
            }
        }
        else
        {
            sb.Append(c);
        }
    }
    if (sb.ToString().Trim().Length > 0)
    {
        result.Add(sb.ToString().Trim());
    }

    return result;
}