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Description

Turns source string into an array of string segments - each with a set maximum width - for parsing or displaying.

Demo Code

//  Copyright ? 2011, Grid Protection Alliance.  All Rights Reserved.
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;//from   w w w.  j  a  v a  2 s . com
using System.Globalization;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System;

public class Main{
        /// <summary>
        /// Turns source string into an array of string segments - each with a set maximum width - for parsing or displaying.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="value">Input string to break up into segments.</param>
        /// <param name="segmentSize">Maximum size of returned segment.</param>
        /// <returns>Array of string segments as parsed from source string.</returns>
        /// <remarks>Returns a single element array with an empty string if source string is null or empty.</remarks>
        public static string[] GetSegments(this string value, int segmentSize)
        {
            if (segmentSize <= 0)
                throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("segmentSize", "segmentSize must be greater than zero.");

            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(value))
                return new string[] { "" };

            int totalSegments = (int)Math.Ceiling(value.Length / (double)segmentSize);
            string[] segments = new string[totalSegments];

            for (int x = 0; x < segments.Length; x++)
            {
                if (x * segmentSize + segmentSize >= value.Length)
                    segments[x] = value.Substring(x * segmentSize);
                else
                    segments[x] = value.Substring(x * segmentSize, segmentSize);
            }

            return segments;
        }
}

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