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leora
leora

Reputation: 196539

what is the best way to parse out the text after the last instance of a character

I have the following string:

string test = /test/test1/tse3/ttese3/test3-45-NameToParseOut

and i need to parse out the word "NameToParseOut". I basically need to find the last "-" and return all of the text after the last instance of "-". What is the most elegant way of parsing this out in C#?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 193

Answers (2)

Paul
Paul

Reputation: 12440

Try:

string test = "/test/test1/tse3/ttese3/test3-45-NameToParseOut"; 
int index = test.LastIndexOf('-');
string value;
if(index != -1) {
    value = test.Substring(index) + 1;
}

Read more on LastIndexOf(char) here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa904293%28v=VS.71%29.aspx

Upvotes: 2

Sergey Kalinichenko
Sergey Kalinichenko

Reputation: 726599

string test = "/test/test1/tse3/ttese3/test3-45-NameToParseOut";
test = test.Substring(test.LastIndexOf('-')+1);

This works even for strings that do not contain dashes (in these cases the entire string is returned).

Upvotes: 5

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