Question

I have strings that look like this:

1. abc
2. def
88. ghi

I’d like to be able to get the numbers from the strings and put it into a variable and then get the remainder of the string and put it into another variable. The number is always at the start of the string and there is a period following the number. Is there an easy way that I can parse the one string into a number and a string?

Answer 1

You can call IndexOf and Substring:

int dot = str.IndexOf(".");
int num = int.Parse(str.Remove(dot).Trim());
string rest = str.Substring(dot).Trim();