Simple question, but I can't find the solution

[vcvc]

Im sure youll all be rolling your eyes and throwing things at me, but here goes with what should be a simple question that I have not been able to find a solution to:
I have a string

FOO,BAR/THIS(THAT)
I need to find the delimiting characters (/,()) and split the string...no problem so far.

The problem is I need to find the delimiting chars and include them with the splits.
eg: the string FOO,BAR/THIS(THAT)
should produce
FOO,
BAR/
THIS(
THAT)

I know this should be simple and Im sure Ill suddenly awake at 3:00am slapping my forehead with a Homer "DOh"

 

[Arch4ngel]

Didnt you try with IndexOf ?
And... what it is doing in RegularExpression ?
Arent regular expression for validating chars in a string to determine which one are valid or not ?

 

[PlausiblyDamp]

RegEx isnt my strong point (only just started to learn it...) but

 the following is close (\w*[,|/|\\|\(|\)]+)
Dim s() As String = Regex.Split("FOO,BAR/THIS(THAT)", "(\w*[,|/|\\|\(|\)]+)", RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace Or RegexOptions.Singleline)

happily delimits and includes the delimiters - unfortunately it also includes several empty strings - not 100% on what Im matching there so hopefully somebody can fix / explain what the hell it is doing.

Edit: similar (has the same problem for now) but if the items are always ASCII and the delimiters may vary try

([a-zA-Z]*[^a-zA-Z])

 

[vcvc]

Hey thanks PlausiblyDamp!

That worked great!

I tinkered with the expression, I always ended up with a bunch of empty strings too, but it didnt really matter as I am looping through the resulting array to match to values from a separate XML.

Arch4Angel - thats why Im using regular expressions. Strings can be painfully slow. Not to mention the overhead of countless lines of string manipulation to perform what a regex can do in one clean line.