How to parse strings

[Jarrod]

took me a while to figure this out. Someone out there might be looking for a contribution like this.

lets use the text "parsing a string" for this example.

// set up the temporary string
string tempstring = "parsing a string";
// set up your split delimiter
string[] split = tempname.Split( ' ' ); // in this case, a blank space
from.SendMessage(split[0]); // sends "parsing"
from.SendMessage(split[1]); // sends "a"
from.SendMessage(split[2]); // sends "string"

of course if the delimiter is different, you can parse it differently:

// set up the temporary string
string tempstring = "just another ~ example";
// set up your split delimiter
string[] split = tempname.Split( '~' ); // in this case, ~
string firsthalf = split[0]; 
firsthalf = firsthalf.Trim();// you want to trim the blank space off the end
string secondhalf = split[1]; 
secondhalf = secondhalf.Trim();// you want to trim the blank space off the beginning
from.SendMessage(firsthalf); // sends "just another"
from.SendMessage(secondhalf); // sends "example"

Have fun

**edit** trimmed the wrong way