Question

I am really a beginner, I already know

string.indexOf("");

Can search for a whole word, but when I tried to search for e.g: ig out of pig, it doesn't work.

I have a similar string here(part of):

<Special!>The moon is crashing to the Earth!</Special!>

Because I have a lot of these in my file and I just cannot edited all of them and add a space like:

< Special! > The moon is crashing to the Earth! </ Special! > 

I need to get the sub-string of Special! and The moon is crashing to the Earth!
What is the simple way to search for a part of a word without adding plugins like HTMLAgilityPack?

Answer 1

IndexOf will work, you are probably just using it improperly.

If your string is in a variable call mystring you would say mystring.IndexOf and then pass in the string you are looking for.

string mystring = "somestring";
int position = mystring.IndexOf("st");