Get first 250 words of a string?

Question

How do I get the first 250 words of a string?

Answer 1

It's possible without calling Take().

string[] separatedWords = stringToProcess.Split(new char[] {' '}, 250, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

Which also allows splitting based on more than just space " " and therefore fixes occurrences when spaces are incorrectly missing in input.

string[] separatedWords = stringToProcess.Split(new char[] {' ', '.', ',' ':', ';'}, 250, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

Use StringSplitOptions.None, if you want empty strings to be returned instead.