Skip empty strings after split

Questions & Answers
1

How to split string with a separator, without counting two consecutive separators as two words?

“ZB-AA-IY”.Split(“-”[0]).Length = 3, which is OK

“ZB–A-IY”.Split(“-”[0]).Length = 4, which is NOT OK

(I want consecutive separators(“–”, “—”, “----” etc) to be considered as one separator, not as multiple separators with empty strings between them)

4

Yep, it is part of System

Just change the line of code with this :

char separator = { ‘-’ };
int i = “ZB–A-IY”.Split(separator, System.StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).Length;

You can also add “using System;” instead.

2

I’ve not tested this, but according to the Split .NET doc, you can use the option StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries to solve this:

var strings = "Some---String".Split("-"[0], StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
3

It is easy, just add a split option as parameter of the split.

“ZB–A-IY”.Split(“-”[0], StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);