i have a string that i am reading from another system. its basically a long string that represents a list of key value pairs that are separated by a space in between. It looks like this:

 key:value[space]key:value[space]key:value[space]

so i wrote this code to parse:

string myString = ReadinString();
string[] tokens = myString.split(' ');
foreach (string token in tokens) {
     string key = token.split(':')[0];
     string value = token.split(':')[1];
     .  . . . 
}

the issue now is that some of the values have spaces in them so my "simplistic" split at the top no longer works. i wanted to see how i could still parse out the list of key value pairs (given space as a separator character) now that i know there also could be spaces in the value field as split doesn't seem like its going to be able to work anymore

NOTE: I now confirmed that KEYs will NOT have spaces in them so i only have to worry about Values. Apologies for the confusion.

I have a string that I am reading from another system. It's basically a long string that represents a list of key value pairs that are separated by a space in between. It looks like this:

 key:value[space]key:value[space]key:value[space]

So I wrote this code to parse it:

string myString = ReadinString();
string[] tokens = myString.split(' ');
foreach (string token in tokens) {
     string key = token.split(':')[0];
     string value = token.split(':')[1];
     .  . . . 
}

The issue now is that some of the values have spaces in them so my "simplistic" split at the top no longer works. I wanted to see how I could still parse out the list of key value pairs (given space as a separator character) now that I know there also could be spaces in the value field as split doesn't seem like it's going to be able to work anymore.

NOTE: I now confirmed that KEYs will NOT have spaces in them so I only have to worry about the values. Apologies for the confusion.

i have a string that i am reading from another system. its basically a long string that represents a list of key value pairs that are separated by a space in between. It looks like this:

 key:value[space]key:value[space]key:value[space]

so i wrote this code to parse:

string myString = ReadinString();
string[] tokens = myString.split(' ');
foreach (string token in tokens) {
     string key = token.split(':')[0];
     string value = token.split(':')[1];
     .  . . . 
}

the issue now is that some of the values have spaces in them so my "simplistic" split at the top no longer works. i wanted to see how i could still parse out the list of key value pairs (given space as a separator character) now that i know there also could be spaces in the value field as split doesn't seem like its going to be able to work anymore

NOTE: I now confirmed that KEYs will NOT have spaces in them. Apologies for the confusion.

i have a string that i am reading from another system. its basically a long string that represents a list of key value pairs that are separated by a space in between. It looks like this:

 key:value[space]key:value[space]key:value[space]

so i wrote this code to parse:

string myString = ReadinString();
string[] tokens = myString.split(' ');
foreach (string token in tokens) {
     string key = token.split(':')[0];
     string value = token.split(':')[1];
     .  . . . 
}

the issue now is that some of the values have spaces in them so my "simplistic" split at the top no longer works. i wanted to see how i could still parse out the list of key value pairs (given space as a separator character) now that i know there also could be spaces in the value field as split doesn't seem like its going to be able to work anymore

NOTE: I now confirmed that KEYs will NOT have spaces in them so i only have to worry about Values. Apologies for the confusion.