In my stumbling through code I often come across code that looks like:

string bar = "this is some&string&to be split";
char[] foo = new char[1];
foo[1] = '&';
string[] splitString = bar.Split(foo);

Digging into the documentation on string.Split() you find that there are two versions:

public string[] Split(char[], int);

and

public string[] Split(params char[]);

The second is of interest to us because of the 'params' keyword. Those of you familiar with the Console.WriteLine() call (or printf() from the old C days) will recognize that 'params' allows us to supply a parameter list of unknown size and pass it into a function. In this case, the Split() call can be made with a single '&' parameter instead of making it into an array. So we get the following:

string bar = "this is some&string&to be split";
string[] splitString = bar.Split('&');

Also note that if we needed to add another character to split on, say a space, we would write the split like this:

string[] splitString = bar.Split('&', ' ');

Simple, elegant and more in touch with your C# self :)