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String Split Pipe Delimiter

Hi all. Here is what I am trying to do. I have a pipe delimited string that will have Order IDs separated by a pipe. The maximum order ids will be up to 5 of them. I need to somehow set 5 int variables while looping through the Order IDs. Here is what I have so far:

string stringListItems = pipedOrderIdent;
string[] pipedListItems = stringListItems.Split(Convert.ToChar("|")); //get pipe separated Order Idents

                        for (int i=0;i<pipedListItems.Length;i++)//
                        {
                              pipedListItems[i];
                        }

what I am trying to do is get 5 int variables where if there is not a pipe field for it the value will stay 0.

int OrderID1 = 0;
int OrderID2 = 0;
int OrderID3 = 0;
int OrderID4 = 0;
int OrderID5 = 0;

So if there was two order ids within the pipe I would want to set OrderID1 and OrderID2 like

pipedOrderIdent = 100002|100056

I would want:
int OrderID1 = 100002;
int OrderID2 = 100056;
int OrderID3 = 0;
int OrderID4 = 0;
int OrderID5 = 0;

thanks all for any help

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vlit

sbornstein2

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Hi Expert thanks for the response. Also thanks Vlit as well. What is the best way you think should I use the array? Also if I do that when I go to pass those variables to another void how do I do that like OrderID1 etc.

sbornstein2

ASKER

I need to pass all 5

sbornstein2

ASKER

I actually need the loop because I need to grab the value for the pipe split as well and pass that to another proc within that loop so maybe the array is best

sbornstein2

ASKER

so I need the for loop like:

for (int i=0;i<pipedListItems.Length;i++)//
{
pipedListItems[i];
}

and then splitting it out within the above loop where it shows pipedListItems I need to pass the value to a proc as well as setting it to the orderID

sbornstein2

ASKER

expert that is what I was looking for the loop you had. If you can just verify how I pass the variables as the 5 order ids when I need to access the variables. Thanks

Expert1701

sbornstein2, you can pass the variable in the same way it was declared:

void TestMethod(int[] OrderIDs)
{
//Then you can use OrderIDs[0] .. OrderIDs[4]
}