cannot convert from 'System.StringSplitOptions' to 'char'

[mbewers1]

I don't understand why I'm getting the following error in the last statement of this string of code:

 string current = str.ReadLine();
            StringBuilder currentstr = new StringBuilder(fileName);
            
            //try and locate the details from within the file
            //do a substring search for these items - store whatever appears after = and before },
            PaperProperties prop = new PaperProperties();
            prop.Author1FirstName = current.Split("=", StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

Basically, what I'm trying to do is to split strings within each line of a document where there is an "=" sign present and remove any empty space around that "=" sign.

I have tried placing a ToString() at the end of the method and changing the parameters of the Split() method, but neither are working. What can I do to eliminate this error? Should I be using a different class from StringBuilder?

Cheers,
Matt

[tlhintoq]

YOu need to take another look at the overrides of a string.split

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.split.aspx?ppud=4

There are four, and none of them are the (string, StringSplitOpti ons) that you are trying to send. Though the string[], StringSplitOpti ons might be converting your single string to an array of one element it's not wise to trust the framework to think for you. Either make a char[] or a string[] and send that.

I assume that PaperProps.Auth or1FirstName is a string.
String.split returns a string array string[]
So trying to shove the entire returned string[] into a single string isn't going to work. You need to assign it a single element of the returned string[] such as

prop.Author1FirstName = current.Split(new char[]{'='})[0];

current.Split(' =') will return a string[]
[0] will be the first element of that array

Try this short snippet to see what I mean

string current = "Bob=Author";
string[] thelist = current.Split(new char[] {'='});
string Author1FirstName = thelist[0];//breakpoint here to check the entire array
MessageBox.Show(Author1FirstName, "Author");

[mbewers1]

Thanks

Thanks for your detailed help