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How can I split a Quoted String?

Hi all,

I have a string similar to this:
"1.1.1" "2.2.2 Possibly Some Info Here" "3.3.3 And Maybe Some Info Here Too!"

I would like the array to be
1.1.1
2.2.2 Possibly Some Info Here
3.3.3 And Maybe Some Info Here Too!

Looks like C# (2005) has no native way to do this (unless I am lissing something.

Any ideas how this can be achieved?

Thanks,

James

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Avodah

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Hi,
These both almost work..
DaTribe, if there is more than one space between the delimited items, the delimeter does not match :-(
kaylanreilor, you get blank lines in the returned array (the space(s) delimiting the string.

I can mod the result to remove the blank lines, but is there a more direct way; maybe a regex split?

kaylanreilor

It is because you have whitespaces between '"' in your original string. You cannot remove them since it will remove the necessary whitespaces. So I suppose that you remove afterward in the array.

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Thanks everyone for all the suggestions.
As there are several great solutions, I feel it would be right to split the points in this case - hope this is ok with everyone.
James