String To Array

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Feb 22nd, 2006

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Another Small And Simple Function To Take Each Character of a string, and put it into an Array, This helps significantly when you need to sift through a string. This Function Uses The spush (String Push) Function, Also In Code Snippits.

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Public Function str2Array(xString As String) As String()
Dim tmpArray() As String
Dim tmpchar As String
 
' /* For Each Character In The String */
For I = 1 To Len(xString)
 
    ' /* Retrieve The Character */
    tmpchar = Mid(xString, I, 1)
    ' /* Push It Into The Temporary Array */
    spush tmpArray, tmpchar
Next I
 
' /* Return The Array To The Calling Procedure */
str2Array = tmpArray
End Function

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wilsonjan | Newbie Poster | Oct 18th, 2006

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Apologies, I was being a bit dim and thought this group included .net

:cry:

wilsonjan | Newbie Poster | Oct 18th, 2006

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Couldn't you just do:

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xString.ToCharArray

The only difference would be that you'd have a char array instead of a string array.

Alternatively, a better way in .net 2.0 would be to use the Array.ConvertAll method.

Regards,

Jan.

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