Question

I have data stored in strings that I need to extract and turn into another string. My string data looks like this:

Widget PO NO. 1234
Body PO NO. 123456
Wing PO NO. 12345-2
Nut PO NO. 1-234-56-7

“PO NO.” will always be the same, so I just want to extract the data after the trailing space in “NO. “, and turn it into another string so I can have the numeric data (i.e the purchase order #).

Thanks.

Answer 1

        const string refString = "PO NO.";
        string aLine = "Widget PO NO. 1234";

        string orderNumb = aLine.Substring(aLine.LastIndexOf(refString) + refString.Length).Trim();