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Jamie Taylor
Jamie Taylor

Reputation: 3530

Replace string from character onwards

I've got a string like so

Jamie(123)

And I'm trying to just show Jamie without the brackets etc

All the names are different lengths so I was wondering if there was a simple way of replacing everything from the first bracket onwards?

Some others are displayed like this

Tom(Test(123))
Jack   ((4u72))

I've got a simple replace of the bracket at the moment like this

mystring.Replace("(", "").Replace(")","")

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 754

Answers (4)

rick schott
rick schott

Reputation: 21137

String.Remove(Int32) will do what you need:

Deletes all the characters from this string beginning at a 
specified position and continuing through the last position.

You will also have to .Trim() as well given the data with padding:

mystring = mystring.Remove(mystring.IndexOf("("C))).Trim()

Upvotes: 0

JOpuckman
JOpuckman

Reputation: 1376

VB.NET

mystring.Substring(0, mystring.IndexOf("("C)).Trim()

C#

mystring.Substring(0, mystring.IndexOf('(')).Trim();

Upvotes: 1

nycdan
nycdan

Reputation: 2849

aneal's will work. The alternative I generally use because it's a bit more flexible is .substring.

string newstring = oldstring.substring(0,oldstring.indexof("("));

If you aren't sure that oldstring will have a "(" you will have to do the test first just as aneal shows in their answer.

Upvotes: 0

nebula
nebula

Reputation: 4002

One logic; get the index of the ( and you can trim the later part from that position.

public static string Remove(string value)
            {
                int pos = value.IndexOf("(");
                if (pos >= 0)
                {
                    return value.Remove(pos, remove.Length);
                }
                return value;
            }

Upvotes: 0

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