String.Split Method http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... Public Class StringSplit2 Public Shared Sub Main() Dim delimStr As String = " ,.:" Dim delimiter As Char() = delimStr.ToCharArray() Dim words As String = "one two,three:four." Dim split As String() = Nothing Console.WriteLine("The delimiters are -{0}-", delimStr) Dim x As Integer For x = 1 To 5 split = words.Split(delimiter, x) Console.WriteLine(ControlCh... + "count = {0,2} ..............", x) Dim s As ......