C# Extension Method - String Split that also accepts an Escape Character

Question

I\'d like to write an extension method for the .NET String class. I\'d like it to be a special varation on the Split method - one that takes an escape character to prevent s

Answer 1

My first observation is that the separator ought to be a char not a string since escaping a string using a single character may be hard -- how much of the following string does the escape character cover? Other than that, @James Curran's answer is pretty much how I would handle it - though, as he says it needs some clean up. Initializing j to 0 in the loop initializer, for instance. Figuring out how to handle null inputs, etc.

You probably want to also support StringSplitOptions and specify whether empty string should be returned in the collection.