Question

I have a

string word = "degree/NN";

What I want is to remove the "/NN" part of the word and take only the word "degree".

I have following conditions:

• The length of the word can be different in different occasions. (can be any word therefore the length is not fixed)
• But the word will contain the "/NN" part at the end always.

How can I do this in C# .NET?

Answer 1

Implemented as an extension method:

static class StringExtension
{
  public static string RemoveTrailingText(this string text, string textToRemove)
  {
    if (!text.EndsWith(textToRemove))
      return text;

    return text.Substring(0, text.Length - textToRemove.Length);
  }
}

Usage:

string whatever = "degree/NN".RemoveTrailingText("/NN");

This takes into account that the unwanted part “/NN” is only removed from the end of the word, as you specified. A simple Replace would remove every occurrence of “/NN”. However, that might not be a problem in your special case.