Question

If I have various strings that have text followed by whitespace followed by text, how can I parse the substring beginning with the first character in the second block of text?

For example:
If I have the string:
“stringA stringB”

How can I extract the substring
“stringB”

The strings are of various lengths but will all be of the format .

I’m sure this can be easily done with regex but I’m having trouble finding the proper syntax for c#.

Answer 1

use string.Split()

var test = "stringA stringB";
var elements = test.Split(new[]
{
    ' '
});
var desiredItem = elements.ElementAtOrDefault(1);

if you want to capture all whitespaces (msdn tells us more):

var test = "stringA stringB";
//var elements = test.Split(); // pseudo overload
var elements = test.Split(null); // correct overload
var desiredItem = elements.ElementAtOrDefault(1);

edit:
why pseudo-overload?

• .Split() gets compiled to .Split(new char[0])
• not documented in MSDN