Easiest way to parse a comma delimited string to some kind of object I can loop through to access the individual values?

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there are gotchas with this – but ultimately the simplest way will be to use

string s = [yourlongstring];
string[] values = s.Split(',');

If the number of commas and entries isn’t important, and you want to get rid of ’empty’ values then you can use

string[] values = s.Split(",".ToCharArray(), StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

One thing, though – this will keep any whitespace before and after your strings. You could use a bit of Linq magic to solve that:

string[] values = s.Split(',').Select(sValue => sValue.Trim()).ToArray();

That’s if you’re using .Net 3.5 and you have the using System.Linq declaration at the top of your source file.

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