How can I turn a multi-line string into an array where each element is a line of said string?

Question

Lets say I have

string str = @"Line 1
Line 2
Line 3";

How can I turn this into an array where the 3 elements are "Line 1", "Line 2" and "Line 3".

Parse the string, look for line breaks and put them in array. — onetwo12, Aug 18 '17 at 14:04
you can simply traverse this string and create a word till you face any '\n' char. By this you can have a word array. — sitaram chhimpa, Aug 18 '17 at 14:04
`var lines = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox { Text = str }.Lines;` — Sergey Berezovskiy, Aug 18 '17 at 14:09

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 18 '17 at 14:06

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use this , The RemoveEmptyEntries option will remove empty lines from the text.

string[] splitted = str.Split(new string[] {System.Environment.NewLine}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

answered Aug 18 '17 at 14:06

Ankit

J. D. · Answer 2 · 2017-08-18T14:09:21.543

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var strArray = str.Split(new [] { "\r\n" }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

edited Aug 18 '17 at 14:09

answered Aug 18 '17 at 14:06

J. D.

That's going to result in blank strings between the `\r` and `\n` characters. – juharr Aug 18 '17 at 14:06
@juharr. Fair enough. Edited to remove empty items. – J. D. Aug 18 '17 at 14:09
Note that you now only split on the `\r\n` combination where as before you were splitting if there was only a single `\r` or a single `\n`. This would now remove blank lines which may or may not be desirable. – juharr Aug 18 '17 at 14:11
Based on his requirement (that the desired output based on the sample input is three lines), this should suffice. Maybe you should propose an alternate solution...? – J. D. Aug 18 '17 at 14:15
No need since this is a clear duplicate. – juharr Aug 18 '17 at 14:16

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