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Kyle
Kyle

Reputation: 51

Getting the last part of elements when splitting a string

Here's what I'm trying to workout split function.

The com is a string passed from a textbox, and it removes the first piece from the text.

The text in the textbox is being pass as this ".fedex TYU-123 Time to pick up package"

Then, when gms is part of the first piece of the strip[] array.

string format = com.Remove(0,1);
string[] strip = format.Split(new string[] { " " }, StringSplitOptions.None);
if (strip[0] == "gsm")
{
    string carrier = strip[0];
    string trackid = strip[1];
    string message = strip[2];
}

strip[2] only contains "Time". I wanted to return the last part as this: "Time to pick up package".

Keep in mind also, since the message will be different at times as well, so I don't want a specific string search.

How can I achieve this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 208

Answers (3)

SLaks
SLaks

Reputation: 887225

It sounds like you only want to split the first three elements.

Split() has an overload that lets you tell it how many items to return:

format.Split(new[] { ' ' }, 3)

Upvotes: 3

nsevens
nsevens

Reputation: 2835

You can use the string.Split(char[], int32) method for this, in which you can give a max. number of splitted strings to return.

So:

format.Split(new[] {' '}, 3);

would do the trick.

More info: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c1bs0eda.aspx

Upvotes: 0

Tim Schmelter
Tim Schmelter

Reputation: 460028

I assume you want all words starting with the third, use string.Join(" ", strip.Skip(2)):

string[] strip = format.Split(new string[] { " " }, StringSplitOptions.None);
if (strip[0] == "gsm")
{
    string carrier = strip[0];
    string trackid = strip[1];
    string message = string.Join(" ", strip.Skip(2)); //Time to pick up package
}

Upvotes: 1

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