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Harikrishna
Harikrishna

Reputation: 4305

How can we extract substring of the string by position and separator

How can we divide the substring from the string

Like I have string 

String mainString="///Trade Time///Trade Number///Amount Rs.///";

Now I have other string

String subString="Amount"

Then I want to extract the substring Amount Rs. with the help of second string named subString not by any other method But it should be extracted through two parameters like first is I have index no of Amount string and second is until the next string ///.

Upvotes: 18

Views: 60573

Answers (4)

Ravi Vanapalli
Ravi Vanapalli

Reputation: 9942

This should solve your problem I believe:

mainString.substring(mainString.IndexOf("Amount Rs. "), "///")

where mainString.IndexOf("Amount Rs. ") is the Start Index & "///" is the End Index.

Upvotes: 1

contactmatt
contactmatt

Reputation: 18600

As a compliment to @Guffa's answer, you can make an extension method out of it:

Note: There's no validation to ensure that the provided indexes are in the bounds of the string.

public static class StringExtensions
{

    public static string SubstringBetweenIndexes(string value, int startIndex, int endIndex)
    {
        return value.Substring(startIndex, endIndex - startIndex);
    }

}

Upvotes: 2

joshcomley
joshcomley

Reputation: 28818

string str = Regex.Match("///(?<String>[^/]*?" + subString + "[^/]*?)///").Groups["String"].Value;

Should use String.Format but the exact usage of {x} in an @ string win a Regex I can't remember (do you need to double up the {}?)

N.B: This assumes you are not expecting any /, so could be improved a little.

Upvotes: 1

Guffa
Guffa

Reputation: 700272

First get the index of the substring:

int startIndex = mainString.IndexOf(subString);

Then get the index of the following slashes:

int endIndex = mainString.IndexOf("///", startIndex);

Then you can get the substring that you want:

string amountString = mainString.Substring(startIndex, endIndex - startIndex);

Upvotes: 35

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