Cannot implicitly convert string[] to string when splitting

Question

I am new to c# and I don\'t understand why this isn\'t working. I want to split a previously splitted string.

My code is the following:

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Answer 1

The result of string.Split() is string[], which you should already see by the correct usage when you assign to string[] temp. But when you are assigning to the elements of string[] temp2, you are trying to store arrays of strings in slots that are meant to only store strings, hence the compiler error. Your code could work with a simple change below.

string[] temp;
string[][] temp2; // array of arrays 

string s = "a-a,b-b,c-c,d-d";
temp = s.Split(',');

temp2 = new string[temp.Length][];

for (int i = 0; i < temp.Length; i++)
    temp2[i] = temp[i].Split('-'); 

Answer 2

As others have said, Split returns an array. However, you can split on more than one character at a time. For example,

string s = "a,b,c,d-d";
var split = s.Split(new[] {',', '-'});

In this case, the split array would contain 5 indices, containing "a", "b", "c", "d", and "d".

Answer 3

When you call split, it returns an array of strings. You can't assign string[] to a string variable.