Split a string into String Array in c#

Question

How do I split the string into a string array.

My string looks like this

string orgString = "1234-|@$@|-George,Michael -$@%@$-65489-|@$@|-Lawrence,  Steve J  -$@%@$-7897954-|@$@|-Oliver Mike  -$@%@$-56465-|@$@|-Waldimir Tursoky";

Now I want my string array to store name and number along with -|@$@|-

I tried the following code

string[] strArray = orgString.Split(new string[] {"-$@%@$-"}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

My output looks like this:

"1234-|@$@|-George,Michael "

But my desired output is (name first, number last)

"George,Michael -|@$@|-1234"

How can i achieve this in C#?

Answer 1

Just swap parts in the resulting string :

string orgString = "1234-|@$@|-George,Michael -$@%@$-65489-|@$@|-Lawrence,  Steve J  -$@%@$-7897954-|@$@|-Oliver Mike  -$@%@$-56465-|@$@|-Waldimir Tursoky";
string[] resultingList = orgString.Split(new string[] {"-$@%@$-"}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).Select(x=>x.Split(new string[] {"-|@$@|-"}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).Aggregate((x11,y)=>{return y+" -|@$@|- "+x11;})).ToArray();
foreach(string result in resultingList)
{
    Console.WriteLine(result);
}

Answer 2

You can split again and then recombine

string outerDivider = "-$@%@$-";
string innerDivider = "-|@$@|-";

var results = orgString
    // Split by outer divider
    .Split(new string[] { outerDivider }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
    // Then for each of the results, split again on the inner divider
    .Select(x => x.Split(new string[] { innerDivider }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries))
    // Swap the order of elements around the inner divider and recombine into a string
    .Select(x => string.Join(innerDivider, x[1], x[0]));