Split String with ':' from a Text Asset

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1

Evening all,

This problem is giving me a toothache! I have the below script which works wonderfully (almost)

public class DialogueManager : MonoBehaviour
{

    public List<string> textArray;

    public bool display;
    public TextMeshProUGUI dialogueText;

    public int[] rowsToReadFrom;

    public string fileName;

    public TextAsset textAsset;


    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        textAsset = Resources.Load("TextFiles/" + fileName) as TextAsset;
        dialogueText = GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>();
        textArray = textAsset.text.Split('

').ToList();

    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        
    }

    public void InfoDisplay(int messageToDisplay)
    {
        textArray[messageToDisplay].Split(':');
        dialogueText.text = textArray[messageToDisplay];
        
    }
}

However my textAsset file has on line[0] a string of text that I want to display in 1 text field but split onto two lines so it will essentially read:

“Hi, my name is something”

“Press to make me shrink!”

The above text is on 1 line within my text file and I can’t split over two otherwise it crates two entries in my list.

I have been going round in circles with string.Split in various formats but to no avail. Please help!!

2

public void InfoDisplay(int messageToDisplay)
{
textArray[messageToDisplay] = textArray[messageToDisplay].Replace(‘:’, ’
');
dialogueText.text = textArray[messageToDisplay];
}

But I don’t advise using : as separator unless you have the guarantee you won’t use this character for anything but this.