C# how to split a string character with '\tab' instead of '\t'

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I have a string that contains \tab instead of \t. i want to split string with \tab.

I tried to split my string with \tab, but am facing "too many characters in character literal" error.

What I have tried:

string[] Record = value.Split('\tab');

Posted 27-Mar-18 21:18pm

Rahul s menon

Updated 27-Mar-18 21:34pm

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Jon McKee 28-Mar-18 3:30am

Why? Escape sequences in string literals are standardized for a reason. If you really must (I vehemently recommend not), you can use the Split overload taking a string array. string[] Record = value.Split(new string[] {"\\tab"}, StringSplitOptions.None);

EDIT: Also the error is because '' indicates a single character but '\tab' doesn't translate to a single character. It translates to "<tab>ab".

Patrice T 28-Mar-18 3:41am

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-27T21:35:00

'\tab' is not a character, so that will never work - a character hold just a single letter, or an escaped letter such as '\n' or '\\'

If your string is separated by TAB characters, then '\t' will work fine - that is the C# character for a TAB.

If it's separated by the sequence '\', 't', 'a', 'b', then you would need to use a string array:

C#

string[] stringSeparators = new string[] {@"\tab"};
string[] result = source.Split(stringSeparators, StringSplitOptions.None);