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String Value Into List

Hi Experts!

Thanks for reading this.

If you have a string that contains a list of ids with
comma as a delimiter:

"332, 123, 782, 2, 87, 30, 1, 45, 32"

How do you get it into the var "tids":

var tids = new List<string>();

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TIA!

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Kyle Abrahams, PMP

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Allan

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wow; that was super quick ged325.

So, that's the same as a List<string>?
I will try it now ...

Allan

ASKER

So tried this:

string str = "332, 123, 782, 2, 87, 30, 1, 45, 32";
var tids = str.Split(",");

Got these errors:

Error 1 The best overloaded method match for 'string.Split(params char[])' has some invalid arguments
Error 2 Argument 1: cannot convert from 'string' to 'char[]'

Tried:

var tids = str.Split(Char(44));

but don't know what references Char is from ..

Any ideas?

Allan

ASKER

Basically want to go from

//containing a list of IDs from a string w/ delimiter
var tids = new List<string>();

to:

var tntable = tids.AsQueryble();

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kaufmed

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Allan

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perfect kaufmed. Thanks again.

I will split points.

Mike Tomlinson

Just a small note...

Your original request was for a LIST, but Split() returns an ARRAY.

If you want a List, then pass the results of Split() to the Constructor:

            string data = "332, 123, 782, 2, 87, 30, 1, 45, 32";
            var tids = new List<string>(data.Replace(", ", ",").Split(','));

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Note that I threw in a Replace() call to get rid of the space after the comma, which would have been present in the split strings.

Allan

ASKER

Thank you Idle_Mind; I have sooooo much to learn.