Split a string by another string in C#

Question

I\'ve been using the Split() method to split strings, but this only appears to work if you are splitting a string by a character. Is there a way to split a

Answer 1

I generally like to use my own extension for that:

string data = "THExxQUICKxxBROWNxxFOX";
var dataspt = data.Split("xx");
//>THE  QUICK  BROWN  FOX 


//the extension class must be declared as static
public static class StringExtension
{   
    public static string[] Split(this string str, string splitter)
    {
        return str.Split(new[] { splitter }, StringSplitOptions.None);
    }
}

This will however lead to an Exception, if Microsoft decides to include this method-overload in later versions. It is also the likely reason why Microsoft has not included this method in the meantime: At least one company I worked for, used such an extension in all their C# projects.

It may also be possible to conditionally define the method at runtime if it doesn't exist.