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print a line as many times a string is found (easy stuff)

hi,
I have a long string that needs to be break out and writea line per each break.
I have the following string:
"Somename <ad@somedomain.com>; someothename<ed@somedomain.com>;thirdName <th@somedomian.com>"
so what i need to do is read the string and per each ; found the write the following line:
Mail.To.Add(string found)

so from my example above this is hat it shuld write
Mail.To.Add(Somename <ad@somedomain.com>)
Mail.To.Add(someothename <ed@somedomain.com>)
Mail.To.Add(thirdName <th@somedomian.com>")

How can i write this loop?

jake072

This is indeed easy.

Create a string array from your source string:

' This is the array to use for splitting.
Dim strSep As String() = {";"}
' Split the source string.
Dim str As String() = strReturn.Split(strSep, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)

' Cycle through the split strings...
For i As Integer = 0 To str.Length - 1
Mail.To.Add(str(i))
Next

Good luck,

Jake

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Jake,
In your code strReturn is the actual string that hold the values?
"Somename <ad@somedomain.com>; " & _
"someothename<ed@somedomain.com>;thirdName <th@somedomian.com>"

jake072

Yes - strReturn is your source string (Sorry - should've named it better).

Regex should work fine, but is more complicated, and splitting will work faster than using the Regex...

Jake