C# add string without spaces into array-CodePudding

I have got:

string pattern = "ABCDEFGH!";

and i want to get it into array (pattern can be longer or shorter):

array[0] = A
array[1] = B
array[2] = C
//etc.

I have tried something like this:

help = "ABCDEFGH!"
string[] pattern = help.Split("");

First i wanted to add space between all signs and than split and add them to my array but maybe there is better idea.

CodePudding user response：

The following code will create an array of chars:

string pattern = "ABCDEFGH!";
char[] patternArray = pattern.ToCharArray();

CodePudding user response：

If you need an array of string you could try something likee this, but maybe there's a better way to do it.

string help = "ABCDEFGH!";
string[] patern = new string[help.Length];

for(int i = 0; i < help.Length; i  )
{
    patern[i] = help[i].ToString();
}

CodePudding user response：

Worth noting that C# allows use of the index operator on strings to get characters from the string as if it were a char array. If you only need to access, simply do that

string pattern = "ABCDEFGH!";
Console.WriteLine(pattern[0]); //prints "A"
Console.WriteLine(pattern[1]); //prints "B"
//...

//can use slice/range operators also
Console.WriteLine(pattern[0..2]); //prints "ABC"
Console.WriteLine(pattern[^1]); //prints "!" [^1] == [pattern.Length - 1]

If you need to save to a variable, use .ToCharArray() and you also access by index

char[] pattern = "ABCDEFGH!".ToCharArray();

Of course, in either case watch out for IndexOutOfBounds