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hogni89
hogni89

Reputation: 1754

Split String at position in C#

I have a date stamp (020920111422) and I want to split it to

day = 02, month = 09, year = 2011, hour = 14, and minute = 22

Is there a "split string at position" method in C#?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 11892

Answers (6)

IlPADlI
IlPADlI

Reputation: 2033

For more usecase, maybe this can help

string rawData = "LOAD:DETAIL     11.00.0023.02.201614:52:00NGD    ...";

var idx = 0;
Func<int, string> read = count =>
{
    var result = rawData.Substring(idx, count);//.Trim();
    idx += count;
    return result;
};

var type = read(16);
var version = read(8);
var date = read(18);
var site = read(8);
//...

Upvotes: 0

Sai Kalyan Kumar Akshinthala
Sai Kalyan Kumar Akshinthala

Reputation: 11844

Instead you can convert the date stamp by using Datatime.ParseExact and can extract the day, month, year, hour and minute you want from that date stamp. Refer the following code part for Datetime.ParseExact converting.

DateTime.ParseExact(YourDate, "ddMMyyyyHHmm", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, System.Globalization.DateTimeStyles.None)

Upvotes: 2

Henk Holterman
Henk Holterman

Reputation: 273581

You could also use 

 var d = DateTime.Parse(s, "ddMMyyyyHHmm");

if the end-goal is a DateTime.

Upvotes: 3

sll
sll

Reputation: 62544

Answering on question considering "split string at position" - you can leverage String.Substring(Int32, Int32) method by calling multiple times with different offsets.

Also take a look at LINQ Take() and Skip() methods which allows provide count of elements to return as well.

Otherwise see examples which other guys are provided using DateTime.ParseExact(), I believe this is most correct way to convert string you've provided to DateTime value.

Upvotes: 3

Yahia
Yahia

Reputation: 70379

you can do this via SubString - for example:

string myDay = mydatestamp.SubString (0,2);

OR create a DateTime:

DateTime myDateTime = DateTime.ParseExact ( mydatestamp, "ddMMyyyyHHmm" , CultureInfo.InvariantCulture );

Upvotes: 7

Marc Gravell
Marc Gravell

Reputation: 1063774

You want:

string x = s.Substring(0, i), y = s.Substring(i);

(or maybe i-1/i+1 depending on your exact requirements).

However, you could also use DateTime.ParseExact to load it into a DateTime by telling it the explicit format:

var when = DateTime.ParseExact("020920111422", "ddMMyyyyHHmm",
    CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Upvotes: 19

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