How can I return a string value after split in c#

Question

I am getting an error saying

Syntax error value expected.

In this code

public string[] TabAsDelimiter(string strValue)
{     
      string data = strValue;
      string[] words = data.Split('\t');
      foreach (string word in words)
      {
        return word[];
      }
}

returns the values in the array

Answer 1

word[] is wrong. If you want make word an array, you could use word.ToCharArray() , but it would result in char[] , not string[] .

But I really doubt that you want to return char array. Moreover, you would return only character array of the first word! Because method finishes as soon as it reaches return statement.

I think you just want to return array of words split by tab. In this case, your method should look like:

public string[] TabAsDelimiter(string strValue)
{
  if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(strValue)) return null;     
  return strValue.Split('\t');
}

Answer 2

try

return data.Split('\t');

After Split you got an array.