If you have to do that in many places in your code you can create a fancy extension method:
static class StringExtensions {
public static IEnumerable<String> SplitInParts(this String s, Int32 partLength) {
if (s == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(s));
if (partLength <= 0)
throw new ArgumentException("Part length has to be positive.", nameof(partLength));
for (var i = 0; i < s.Length; i += partLength)
yield return s.Substring(i, Math.Min(partLength, s.Length - i));
}
}
You can then use it like this:
var parts = "32427237".SplitInParts(3);
Console.WriteLine(String.Join(" ", parts));
The output is 324 272 37 as desired.
When you split the string into parts new strings are allocated even though these substrings already exist in the original string. Normally, you shouldn't be too concerned about these allocations but using modern C# you can avoid this by altering the extension method slightly to use "spans":
public static IEnumerable<ReadOnlyMemory<char>> SplitInParts(this String s, Int32 partLength)
{
if (s == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(s));
if (partLength <= 0)
throw new ArgumentException("Part length has to be positive.", nameof(partLength));
for (var i = 0; i < s.Length; i += partLength)
yield return s.AsMemory().Slice(i, Math.Min(partLength, s.Length - i));
}
The return type is changed to public static IEnumerable<ReadOnlyMemory<char>> and the substrings are created by calling Slice on the source which doesn't allocate.
Notice that if you at some point have to convert ReadOnlyMemory<char> to string for use in an API a new string has to be allocated. Fortunately, there exists many .NET Core APIs that uses ReadOnlyMemory<char> in addition to string so the allocation can be avoided.
This might be off topic as I don't know why you wish to format the numbers this way, so please just ignore this post if it's not relevant...
How an integer is shown differs across different cultures. You should do this in a local independent manner so it's easier to localize your changes at a later point.
int.ToString takes different parameters you can use to format for different cultures.
The "N" parameter gives you a standard format for culture specific grouping.
public static IEnumerable<string> SplitInGroups(this string original, int size) {
var p = 0;
var l = original.Length;
while (l - p > size) {
yield return original.Substring(p, size);
p += size;
}
yield return original.Substring(p);
}
To join back as a string, delimited by spaces:
var joined = String.Join(" ", myNumber.SplitInGroups(3).ToArray());
I would do something like this, although I'm sure there are other ways. Should perform pretty well.
public static string Format(string number, int batchSize, string separator)
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i <= number.Length / batchSize; i++)
{
if (i > 0) sb.Append(separator);
int currentIndex = i * batchSize;
sb.Append(number.Substring(currentIndex,
Math.Min(batchSize, number.Length - currentIndex)));
}
return sb.ToString();
}
I like this cause its cool, albeit not super efficient:
var n = 3;
var split = "12345678900"
.Select((c, i) => new { letter = c, group = i / n })
.GroupBy(l => l.group, l => l.letter)
.Select(g => string.Join("", g))
.ToList();
For a dividing a string and returning a list of strings with a certain char number per place, here is my function:
public List<string> SplitStringEveryNth(string input, int chunkSize)
{
var output = new List<string>();
var flag = chunkSize;
var tempString = string.Empty;
var lenght = input.Length;
for (var i = 0; i < lenght; i++)
{
if (Int32.Equals(flag, 0))
{
output.Add(tempString);
tempString = string.Empty;
flag = chunkSize;
}
else
{
tempString += input[i];
flag--;
}
if ((input.Length - 1) == i && flag != 0)
{
tempString += input[i];
output.Add(tempString);
}
}
return output;
}