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Hello,

I have a text document that contains a load of 'IP Scanned Results', which basically looks like this:

 Name: DEVICE_1, Device Type: PHONE_1, IP: 192.168.1.54, MAC: 00:00:00:00:00:00, Last Seen: 06-10-2014 14:23:12
 Name: DEVICE_2, Device Type: PHONE_2, IP: 192.168.1.54, MAC: 00:00:00:00:00:00, Last Seen: 06-10-2014 14:23:12
 Name: DEVICE_3, Device Type: PHONE_3, IP: 192.168.1.54, MAC: 00:00:00:00:00:00, Last Seen: 06-10-2014 14:23:12

This text file is dynamic (the text in Caps are the dynamic keywords). How can I separate them out into arrays such as:

 var Name : String[];
 var Type : String[];
 var IP : String[];
 var MAC : String[];
 var LastSeen : String[];

I was messing around with the 'Split', like this:

 Split("Name:"[0]);

But all that did was:

 Element 0 : 
 Element 1 : ame: DEVICE_2, Device Type: PHO
 Element 2 : E_2, IP: 192.168.1.54, MAC: 00:00:00:00:00:00, Last Seen: 06-10-2014 14:23:12

Which makes no sense. Could someone point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

Answer by Anxo · Oct 06, 2014 at 04:26 PM

You where in the right direction, you are just not using split correctly. Check out these docs, it looks for a character to seperate the strings by. So you would do something like this

 string unformattedString = Name: DEVICE_1, Device Type: PHONE_1, IP: 192.168.1.54, MAC: 00:00:00:00:00:00, Last Seen: 06-10-2014 14:23:12;
 
 string[] splitString = unformattedString.Split(new Char[] {':',',',':'});
 
 List<string> Names = new List<string>();
 Names.Add(splitString[1]);
 
 List<string> Type = new List<string>();
 Type.Add(splitString[3]);

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Anxo · Oct 06, 2014 at 04:28 PM 0

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That is C# by the way, sorry. but you get the concept. the Split, looks for a character not a word, so if you type in Name:, it split it by the character N, Thats why your first string is missing the N in Name and your second string is missing the N in Phone. But you can give it an array of characters as I did to use multiple characters to as separators.

Answer 2

you'll be better off looking at regular expressions. they look like voodoo to the uninitiated but they're actually quite powerful when used to do this sort of thing...

EDIT: like this! it's far from perfect but shows you the sort of thing that you should do...

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
 
 public class RegExTest : MonoBehaviour
 {
     private const string InputText = "Name: DEVICE_1, Device Type: PHONE_1, IP: 192.168.1.54, MAC: 00:00:00:00:00:00, Last Seen: 06-10-2014 14:23:12\nName: DEVICE_2, Device Type: PHONE_2, IP: 192.168.1.54, MAC: 00:00:00:00:00:00, Last Seen: 06-10-2014 14:23:12\nName: DEVICE_3, Device Type: PHONE_3, IP: 192.168.1.54, MAC: 00:00:00:00:00:00, Last Seen: 06-10-2014 14:23:12";
     private const string RegExInput = @"Name: (\w*), Device Type: (\w*), IP: ([0-9.]*), MAC: ([0-9a-fA-F:]*), Last Seen: ([0-9-: ]*)";
 
     private void Awake()
     {
         var regEx = new Regex(RegExInput, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
         var inputArray = InputText.Split('\n');
 
         foreach (var myLine in inputArray)
         {
             var match = regEx.Match(myLine);
             if (match.Success)
             {
                 var groups = match.Groups;
                 Debug.Log(string.Format("name='{0}',type='{1}',IP='{2}',MAC='{3}',Last seen='{4}'", groups[1], groups[2], groups[3], groups[4], groups[5]));
             }
         }
     }
 }

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