Can I split a string in c# VB6-style without referencing Microsoft.VisualBasic?

Unfortunately, there seems to be no string.Split(string separator), only string.Split(char speparator).

I want to break up my string based on a multi-character separator, a la VB6. Is there an easy (that is, not by referencing Microsoft.VisualBasic or having to learn RegExes) way to do this in c#?

EDIT: Using .NET Framework 3.5.

From stackoverflow Josh Kodroff

• the regex for spliting string is extremely simple so i would go with that route.

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8yttk7sy.aspx

  From ooo

• Which version of .Net? At least 2.0 onwards includes the following overloads:

  .Split(string[] separator, StringSplitOptions options)  
  .Split(string[] separator, int count, StringSplitOptions options)
  

  Now if they'd only fix it to accept any IEnumerable<string> instead of just array.

  From Joel Coehoorn

• String.Split() has other overloads. Some of them take string[] arguments.

  string original = "first;&second;&third";
  string[] splitResults = original.Split( new string[] { ";&" }, StringSplitOptions.None );
  

  From Joel B Fant

• You could simply use String.Split. It is part of the base library and there are many overloads that are much like VB.

  From Dave Ganger

• The regex version is probably prettier but this works too:

  string[] y = { "bar" };
  
  string x = "foobarfoo";
  foreach (string s in x.Split(y, StringSplitOptions.None))
        Console.WriteLine(s);
  

  This'll print foo twice.

  From Dana

•  string[] stringSeparators = new string[] {"[stop]"};
      string[] result;
  result = someString.Split(stringSeparators, StringSplitOptions.None);
  

  via http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tabh47cf.aspx

  From $pageUsers[$post.author].name

• I use this under .NET 2.0 all the time.

  string[] args = "first;&second;&third".Split(";&".ToCharArray(),StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
  

  From J.Hendrix