Parsing String

Ruchi R

HI everyone,

i have to split a string like "CD-016 - Samina Joshi" into string1="CD-016 " and string2="Samina Joshi". how is it possible to do.

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Praneeth Kumar15y ago
Accepted answer
I found a quick fix. I feel there could be still more better sol.n

        string str = "CD-016 - Samina Joshi";
        string str1 = str.Substring(0, str.IndexOf(" - "));
        string str2 = str.Substring(str.IndexOf(" - ") + 3, str.Length - str.IndexOf(" - ") - 3);
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Vulpes15y ago
When it comes to string parsing, you have a choice between high speed but not much power (String class methods) and high power but not much speed (regular expressions).

Consequently, when it's something simple like this, I prefer to use String class methods but, if it's complicated, I use regular expressions.

Having said that, unless you're doing hundreds of similar operations, you're unlikely to notice the difference in speed between the two.
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Suthish Nair15y ago
Vulpes, which one is good way... I used both RegEx and the sample you posted..
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Vulpes15y ago
You can also do it without using regular expressions:

string[] items = str.Split(new string[]{" - "}, StringSplitOptions.None);
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Praneeth Kumar15y ago
@Suthish thats a real good one. I never thought of using RegEx for it :). Will keep it noted for my future ref.
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Suthish Nair15y ago
Another way using Regular Expression..

string[] lines = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Split("CD-016 - Samina Joshi", " - ");
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