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c#string
user249375
user249375

Reputation:

Search a string for a value

I have a string where its formatted with delimeters like:

string | time stamp in milliseconds | int counter | string

I need to be able to grab the counter value only. There will be a number of messages so the time stamp and counter will increase with each message. I am using a string builder for the incoming messages.

What is the best way to get the counter in each string message coming in?

sb.Append(Encoding.ASCII.GetString(state.buffer, 0, bytesRead));
string content = sb.ToString();

Thank you

Upvotes: 0

Views: 80

Answers (3)

Hassan
Hassan

Reputation: 5430

If string is coming like this:

string strContent = "abc|1399718438000|100|def";

You could use Split method 

int iCounter = Convert.ToInt32(strContent.Split(new char[] {'|'})[2]);

Or preferably when dealing with single char for splitting a string. 

int iCounter = Convert.ToInt32(strContent.Split('|')[2]);

Upvotes: 3

qxg
qxg

Reputation: 7036

Split is a little heavy here. Just get indexes of the second and the third separator and use SubString to get the counter part.

Upvotes: 0

RajeshKannan
RajeshKannan

Reputation: 904

You can also use this:

int counter = Convert.ToInt32(strContent.Split('|').ToList().ElementAt(2));

Upvotes: 0

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