c# parsing

Question

hello, just checking if anyone knows a simple way to parse out the following in c# before i try to hack up some ugly code to manually do this:

"A", "B", "C"

into A, B, C.... A, B, C are strings that can have a comma in it.

Answer 1

Tell me if I am wrong, but if you want to to make a very simple string that hold all values + comma you can do it in this way which is most simple:

string a = "A";
string b = "B";
string c = "C";

string comma = ",";

string print = a + comma + b + comma + c;

Console.WriteLine(print);

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Answer 2

If this is in a CSV file, you can use the TextFieldParser class to do this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.visualbasic.fileio.textfieldparser.aspx

This class is built in, and handles nested commas within your quoted strings, etc.

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Answer 3

Willis :

Does this help with parsing ?

           string[] arr = { "A", "B", "C" };
           var result = new String(string.Join(",",arr).ToCharArray());
           Console.WriteLine(result);

Answer 4

thanks Reed, TextFieldParser class worked.

@Venkat786, I'm trying to split out a comma separated, quoted fields, not join them them back together.  I tried doing split but it messes up if a field has a comma within.