Unable to split string based on SOH delimeter

Question

Hi All,

I am unable to split the below string based on SOH (start of heading) delimiter.
{SomeText}ETX SOH{SomeText}

I have tried with below code but no luck.
var parts = Regex.Split(inputText, @"[\SOH] ");

Could you please help me in splitting the line.

Regards,
Rabindra

Answer 1

Unless the splitting logic needs to be more complex, you could just do this with the string Split method:

string inputText = "{SomeText}ETX SOH{SomeText}";
 
var parts = inputText.Split(new string[1] {"SOH"}, StringSplitOptions.None);

Answer 2

Hi,

Thanks for you reply but it did not work. SOH is a special character. It represents Start of Heading. Kindly give me some other way to split the string.

Thanks,

Rabindra

Answer 3

Ah, Split works perfectly fine with control characters.

Assuming that the start of heading character is Unicode char U+0001, you can just specify that using the appropriate escape sequence of \x0001:

string inputText = "{SomeText}ETX \x0001{SomeText}";
 
var parts = inputText.Split('\x0001');

Answer 4

Hi, Thanks a lot. It finally worked.

Regards,
Rabindra