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

The previous answers are all correct. I go one step further and make C# work for me by defining an extension method on String:

public static class Extensions
{
    public static string[] Split(this string toSplit, string splitOn) {
        return toSplit.Split(new string[] { splitOn }, StringSplitOptions.None);
    }
}

That way I can call it on any string in the simple way I naively expected the first time I tried to accomplish this:

"a big long string with stuff to split on".Split("g str");