What are the alternatives to Split a string in c# that don't use String.Split()

Question

I saw this question that asks given a string \"smith;rodgers;McCalne\" how can you produce a collection. The answer to this was to use String.Split.

If we don\'t ha

Answer 1

You make your own loop to do the split. Here is one that uses the Aggregate extension method. Not very efficient, as it uses the += operator on the strings, so it should not really be used as anything but an example, but it works:

string names = "smith;rodgers;McCalne";

List split = names.Aggregate(new string[] { string.Empty }.ToList(), (s, c) => {
  if (c == ';') s.Add(string.Empty); else s[s.Count - 1] += c;
  return s;
});