StringSplitOptions not working

Question

In my code I have the following line which splits a string into multiple strings using the end-of-line as a seperator:

string[] reqStringArray = reqString.ToString().Split(new string[] { "\\r\\n" }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

According to the documentation this function is now supported in the Compact Framework 2 as well, but it doesn't seem to recognize the StringSplitOptions object:

"The name 'StringSplitOptions' does not exist in the current context"

The weird thing is that the Intellisense does have the StringSplitOptions object in the list when I type it.

Any ideas why it is not working?

Answer 1

There's no StringSplitOptions and there's no such overload of String.Split() in NETCF, only one overload of Split() is available. IntelliSense shows only one overload of Split(), but there appears to be a documentation bug on MSDN.

Answer 2

That indeed seems to be the case. Better get that documentation fixed though!

Answer 3

 The msnd documentation shows StringSplitOptions enumeration availability only for .NET Framework 2.0

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.stringsplitoptions(v=vs.80).aspx

It is very odd that it was removed starting with 3.0