Parse a sentence in VB. Net

I am trying to parse a sentence wherein the words are seperated by spaces. The words are then stripped of commas (",") or semicolons (";") and written to a database. This code to split the words works in VB.net 2002 but not VB.Net 2003 or 2005. Iam using streamReader/StreamWriter to read/write from a text file.

Variables:
currentSentence as String
splitSentence() as String
i as Integer

Code:

Do Until sr.Peek = -1
   currentSentence = sr.readLine
   For i = 1 To currentSentence.Length -1 ' Ignore first word
      splitSentence = currentSentence.Split(" ")*
      'Some other code to write sentence goes here
   Next i
Loop

* the Split method is splitting the characters and not the words in VB.Net 2003 and 2005

Any suggestions

Thanks Trebormac

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Parse a sentence in VB. Net

citegestion
Trebormac wrote:
the Split method is splitting the characters and not the words in VB.Net 2003 and 2005
Perhaps your code to write out the sentence is confusing you somehow, or perhaps your sentence has more spaces in it than you expect

The following code works as you'd expect in Visual Studio 2003, spliting words not characters.

Dim s1 As String
s1 = "ABC DEF GHI, JKL "

Dim s2() As String

s2 = s1.Split(" ")

For Each s As String In s2
   Console.WriteLine(s)
Next

The output looks like this...

   ABC
   DEF
   GHI,
   JKL
BZRK

String.Split will break the input string into an array of strings. So I don't see why you need the For loop. You also need to specify that the split is a character using " "c. Try this and modify it to read from your StreamReader:

Dim currentSentence As String = "This is a test!!!"
Dim splitSentence() As String = currentSentence.Split(" "c)
For Each s As String In splitSentence
Console.WriteLine(s)
Next
DannyvG
Thanks! This did the fix.
Parse a sentence in VB. Net

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