Split values from a string

Question

I have xml data in a string and i want it to split and i want to display the result in a Lable.

Here is my code:

string param = <HCToolParameters><BatchId>12</BatchId><HCUser>Admin</HCUser</HCToolParameters>;
var a = param.Split(new string[] { "<HCToolParameters>" }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
var b = param.Split(new string[] { "<BatchId>12</BatchId>" }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
var c = param.Split(new string[] { "<HCUser>Admin</HCUser>" }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
var d = param.Split(new string[] { "</HCToolParameters>" }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

Example:

String value = 
<HCToolParameters><BatchId>12</BatchId><HCUser>Admin</HCUser></HCToolParameters>

Expected Result:

<HCToolParameters>
 <BatchId>12</BatchId>
 <HCUser>Admin</HCUser>
</HCToolParameters>

Possible duplicate of [Format XML String to Print Friendly XML String](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1123718/format-xml-string-to-print-friendly-xml-string) — Mark, Dec 07 '16 at 09:48

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 07 '16 at 09:53

From what I see in the begging you have valid xml so, stop spliting it and use Xml Parser !

string param =@"<HCToolParameters><BatchId>12</BatchId><HCUser>Admin</HCUser></HCToolParameters>";

XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse(param);

Console.WriteLine(doc.ToString());

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 07 '16 at 09:52

Well you could do it easy by this:

value = value.Replace("><", ">" + Environment.NewLine + "<");

This would work out in your example and is easy,... if you need it as Array (I don't realy know why you would try it this way:

var array = value.Replace("><", ">#<").Split('#');

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 07 '16 at 09:52

You can use XmlTextWriter.Formatting = Formatting.Indented; because what is see is, you wanted to format your XML string. This function might do the trick for you

public static String FormatMyXML(String SomeXML)
{
    String Result = "";
    MemoryStream mStream = new MemoryStream();
    XmlTextWriter wrtr = new XmlTextWriter(mStream, Encoding.Unicode);
    XmlDocument document   = new XmlDocument();
    try
    {
        document.LoadXml(SomeXML);
        wrtr.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
        document.WriteContentTo(wrtr);
        wrtr.Flush();
        mStream.Flush();
        mStream.Position = 0;
        StreamReader sReader = new StreamReader(mStream);
        String FormattedXML = sReader.ReadToEnd();
        Result = FormattedXML;
    }
    catch (XmlException)
    {
    }
    mStream.Close();
    wrtr.Close();
    return Result;
}

Split values from a string

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