How to split a string by multiple chars?

Question

I have a string like this: string ip = "192.168.10.30 | SomeName". I want to split it by the | (including the spaces. With this code it is not possible unfortunately:

string[] address = ip.Split(new char[] {'|'}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

as this leads to "192.168.10.30 ". I know I can add .Trim() to address[0] but is that really the right approach?

Simply adding the spaces(' | ') to the search pattern gives me an

Unrecognized escape sequence

Answer 1

You can split by string, not by character:

var result = ip.Split(new string[] {" | "}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);