Question

I have a string of the format MASTER CARD 01/01/2012, I need to grab the date part separately.

Sometimes it could be VISA 01/01/2012, I have tried splitting by the space but got stuck when there are two spaces like in the case of MASTER CARD 01/01/2012.

Any help would be much appreciated;

string date = e.Brick.Text;
string[] dates = date.Split(' ');

Answer 1

The way your strings look, you will get the date in your last element in array.

//dates[dates.Length-1] should have date

    string date = "MASTER CARD 01/01/2012";
    string[] dates = date.Split(' ');
    Console.WriteLine(dates[dates.Length - 1]);

A proper solution should be to check each item against DateTime, something on the following line

DateTime tempDs = new DateTime();
            foreach (string str in dates)
            {

                if (DateTime.TryParse(str, out tempDs))
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Found Date");
                }
            }