Question

I have a string with carriage returns in it I separate them using the following split:

 string[] RemoveEmptySpace = result.Split(new string[] { "\n", "\r\n" }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

so it becomes like this:

Server:  xxx
Address:  xxx.xxx.11.10

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    test.com
Address:  xxx.xxx.888.555

now my question is how do i get the first instance of Address numbers only not the text e.g.’xxx.xxx.11.10′? the string comes from nslookup so it is dynamic the position may change…

Thanks

Answer 1

You could iterate over the collection of strings you got from the split, and parse those beginning with “Address”. i.e. something like this:

string[] RemoveEmptySpace = ...;

// ...
foreach (string line in RemoveEmptySpace)
{
    if (line.StartsWith("Address:"))
    {
        string[] segments = line.Split(new char[1] { ':' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

        // Use the second segment, as this should be the value
        string value = segments[1].Trim();

        // Note: You now have the string representation of the Address numbers.

        // Stop searching for more addresses
        break;
    }
}