Question

I’m trying to get a string from a URL in C#. The URL will look something like this:

http://www.somesite.com/something/I-WANT-THIS-SEGMENT/cms/somethingelse

OR

http://www.somesite.com/something/someotherthing/I-WANT-THIS-SEGMENT/cms

OR

http://www.somesite.com/I-WANT-THIS-SEGMENT/cms/something

Basically, I want the segment before the “cms”

Answer 1

Not so pretty, but I think that you don’t need a regex here:

string Url1 = @"http://www.somesite.com/something/I-WANT-THIS-SEGMENT/cms/somethingelse";
string Url2 = @"http://www.somesite.com/something/someotherthing/I-WANT-THIS-SEGMENT/cms";
string Url3 = @"http://www.somesite.com/I-WANT-THIS-SEGMENT/cms/something";

Url1 = Url1.Substring(0, Url1.IndexOf("/cms"));
string PartOfUrl1 = Url1.Substring(Url1.LastIndexOf("/")+1);
Console.WriteLine(PartOfUrl1);

Url2 = Url2.Substring(0, Url2.IndexOf("/cms"));
string PartOfUrl2 = Url2.Substring(Url2.LastIndexOf("/")+1);
Console.WriteLine(PartOfUrl2);

Url3 = Url3.Substring(0, Url3.IndexOf("/cms"));
string PartOfUrl3 = Url3.Substring(Url3.LastIndexOf("/")+1);
Console.WriteLine(PartOfUrl3);

Using the Uri class would be nice too, as George pointed out.