Question

I have a coded string that I’d like to retrieve a value from. I realize that I can do some string manipulation (IndexOf, LastIndexOf, etc.) to pull out 12_35_55_219 from the below string but I was wondering if there was a cleaner way of doing so.

"AddedProject[12_35_55_219]0"

Answer 1

If you can be sure of the format of the string, then several possibilities exist:

My favorite is to create a very simple tokenizer:

string[] arrParts = yourString.Split( "[]".ToCharArray() );

Since there is a regular format to the string, arrParts will have three entries, and the part you’re interested in would be arrParts[1].

If the string format varies, then you will have to use other techniques.