How to split and replace in VB.NET

Question

i have an arugument like this vXMLStream = YYYYMM=200502 ename=RAJ age=23 sex=Male category=Poor edu_qualification=BBA community=SC religion=HINDU occupation=farmer month_income=2000 here i splited this and to stored in an array variable. for that i tried the following. Because here i want to replace occupation=farmer this one array position alone alone. and finally i want to concatenate all the array indexes and stored in the vXMLStream variable. Dim sourceString As String = vXMLStream Dim arrayOfStrings() As String = sourceString.Split( ) System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.Write( alert('The following errors have occurred:
 + arrayOfStrings(2) + ' ); ) But Now once i print the data i am getting output like this YYYYMM=200502 ename=RAJ age=23 sex=Male category=Poor edu_qualification=BBA community=SC religion=HINDU occupation=farmer Here i want to replace this (occupation=farmer this is static one) finally i want to concatenate all the array indexes and stored in the vXMLStream variable. please post solution for this post

Vulpes · Answer

If you mean that you want to replace the occupation farmer with a different occupation and then recombine the string you can do it like this: Dim sourceString As String = vXMLStream Dim arrayOfStrings() As String = sourceString.Split( ) Dim newOccupation As String = developer ' say For i As Integer = 0 To arrayOfStrings.Length - 1 If arrayOfStrings(i).StartsWith(occupation=) Then arrayOfStrings(i) = occupation= & newOccupation &  Exit For End If Next System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.Write( alert('The following errors have occurred:
 + arrayOfStrings(2) + ' ); ) vXMLStream = String.Join(  arrayOfStrings)