How to declare array of strings inside Razor view

Question

I am trying to split the string based on ; and store it in array of string in MVC Razor view and I tried it as below:

@{
     string[] replies = !string.IsNullOrEmpty(messages.MessageReply) ? messages.MessageReply.Split(';') : new string []{};
}

But whenever I write this it will treat last } of the string[] replies as its main closing bracket instead of the one below. How can I avoid this or how would I be declaring such sort of variables in razor view?

Answer 1

Pust conditional expression into brackets:

string[] replies = (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(messages.MessageReply) ? messages.MessageReply.Split(';') : new string []{ });

Or... just get rid of brackets:

string[] replies = !string.IsNullOrEmpty(messages.MessageReply) ? messages.MessageReply.Split(';') : new string [0];

It should help

Answer 2

I guess you could use: string[0] instead of string[]{} :

@{
     string[] replies = !string.IsNullOrEmpty(messages.MessageReply) ? messages.MessageReply.Split(';') : new string [0];
}