Removing certain characters from strings and converting to a list

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1

Hello!

I am sending query data from Unity3D to an external API.
The API is taking my query, generating a result and sending it back.

However when it sends back certain values, it sends them back like this:

[“c7385f31-2c3e-42ae-aae2-57c5ea66088f”, “e6f8f4db-76c4-43a9-b5d3-5d3be606cabd”, “22a55fa7-bf1f-46d9-9c1e-67336c4f55c4”]

That is a list of id codes sent from the API to me. However it is all one continuous string.

How would I go about converting this into a list?

I figure what I need to do is remove firstly the ['s and then seperate each one from each other. I’m not too sure how to go about it and have searched the internet for a solution but haven’t found one.

(I am using C# btw, and heard that lists were better than arrays for this particular thing. Please do correct me if I’m wrong!)

Thanks!!

3

Just use String.Split, in combination with Substring to strip the outer characters. Then it doesn’t matter if the lengths are the same or not. You don’t need a List; an array is fine, which is what Split returns.

string input = "[\"c7385f31-2c3e-42ae-aae2-57c5ea66088f\", \"e6f8f4db-76c4-43a9-b5d3-5d3be606cabd\", \"22a55fa7-bf1f-46d9-9c1e-67336c4f55c4\"]";
string[] splitter = {"\", \""};
string[] idCodes = input.Substring(2, input.Length-4).Split(splitter, System.StringSplitOptions.None);

foreach (var id in idCodes) {
	Debug.Log (id);
}
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So, you receive “c7385f31-2c3e-42ae-aae2-57c5ea66088fe6f8f4db-76c4-43a9-b5d3-5d3be606cabd22a55fa7-bf1f-46d9-9c1e-67336c4f55c4” and you want to split it up in three and store each parts in a list am I right ?

I guess there isn’t a character of separation then, but each part seems to have the same number of chars (I didn’t count). You should use SubString and add each result to a List< string >