Question

I have a string which is like this

187878 – my text comment – this is user comment – last

I have to take the first value, which is my employeeid i.e. 187878 and I need rest of the comment.

I use this,

string[] myText = textbox1.text.split('-');

but this broke the string into 3 peices and I am not able to get the comment as a whole. How can I get first id in a different variable and rest comment in different variable.

Do I need to loop again ?

Answer 1

Use the overload of string.Split that takes a count:

string[] myText = input.Split(new char[] { '-' }, 2);
if (myText.Length != 2) { /* error */ }
int employeeId;
if (!int.TryParse(myText[0], out employeeId)) { /* error */ }
string comment = myText[1];