How to Split a text into List by multiple characters

Question

Let's say i have:

string text = "Ivan - George ; Josh , Mike John";

And i want to split it by

" - ", " ; " , " ".

Normally when I want to split a text by 1 element I would use:

List<string> names = text.Split(" - ").ToList();

But now I encountered a problem where i need to split a text by multiple characters and I don't know how to do it...

Answer 1

List<string> names = text.Split(
    new []{" - ", " ; ", " "}, 
    StringSplitOptions.None).ToList();