Splitting Text

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1

Hello,

I have a text document that contains a load of ‘IP Scanned Results’, which basically looks like this:

Name: DEVICE_1, Device Type: PHONE_1, IP: 192.168.1.54, MAC: 00:00:00:00:00:00, Last Seen: 06-10-2014 14:23:12
Name: DEVICE_2, Device Type: PHONE_2, IP: 192.168.1.54, MAC: 00:00:00:00:00:00, Last Seen: 06-10-2014 14:23:12
Name: DEVICE_3, Device Type: PHONE_3, IP: 192.168.1.54, MAC: 00:00:00:00:00:00, Last Seen: 06-10-2014 14:23:12

This text file is dynamic (the text in Caps are the dynamic keywords). How can I separate them out into arrays such as:

var Name : String[];
var Type : String[];
var IP : String[];
var MAC : String[];
var LastSeen : String[];

I was messing around with the ‘Split’, like this:

Split("Name:"[0]);

But all that did was:

Element 0 : 
Element 1 : ame: DEVICE_2, Device Type: PHO
Element 2 : E_2, IP: 192.168.1.54, MAC: 00:00:00:00:00:00, Last Seen: 06-10-2014 14:23:12

Which makes no sense. Could someone point me in the right direction?

2

You where in the right direction, you are just not using split correctly. Check out these docs, it looks for a character to seperate the strings by. So you would do something like this

string unformattedString = Name: DEVICE_1, Device Type: PHONE_1, IP: 192.168.1.54, MAC: 00:00:00:00:00:00, Last Seen: 06-10-2014 14:23:12;

string[] splitString = unformattedString.Split(new Char[] {':',',',':'});

List<string> Names = new List<string>();
Names.Add(splitString[1]);

List<string> Type = new List<string>();
Type.Add(splitString[3]);
3

you’ll be better off looking at regular expressions. they look like voodoo to the uninitiated but they’re actually quite powerful when used to do this sort of thing…

EDIT: like this! it’s far from perfect but shows you the sort of thing that you should do…

using UnityEngine;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

public class RegExTest : MonoBehaviour
{
    private const string InputText = "Name: DEVICE_1, Device Type: PHONE_1, IP: 192.168.1.54, MAC: 00:00:00:00:00:00, Last Seen: 06-10-2014 14:23:12

Name: DEVICE_2, Device Type: PHONE_2, IP: 192.168.1.54, MAC: 00:00:00:00:00:00, Last Seen: 06-10-2014 14:23:12
Name: DEVICE_3, Device Type: PHONE_3, IP: 192.168.1.54, MAC: 00:00:00:00:00:00, Last Seen: 06-10-2014 14:23:12";
private const string RegExInput = @“Name: (\w*), Device Type: (\w*), IP: ([0-9.]), MAC: ([0-9a-fA-F:]), Last Seen: ([0-9-: ]*)”;

    private void Awake()
    {
        var regEx = new Regex(RegExInput, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
        var inputArray = InputText.Split('

');

        foreach (var myLine in inputArray)
        {
            var match = regEx.Match(myLine);
            if (match.Success)
            {
                var groups = match.Groups;
                Debug.Log(string.Format("name='{0}',type='{1}',IP='{2}',MAC='{3}',Last seen='{4}'", groups[1], groups[2], groups[3], groups[4], groups[5]));
            }
        }
    }
}