Grab data from string

[Arjen]

Hi,

I have a string with a lot of text. I want to filter out some data. I know
some characters before and after the wanted data.

I know that there is a substring method but this one use a fixed length, a
length I don't know.

How can I retriew the middle data, having a string before and after that
data?

Thanks!
Arjen

 

[Marc Gravell]

Sounds like a regex to me... google for regex if you aren't familiar

Marc

 

[Ebbe Kristensen]

Hi,

I have a string with a lot of text. I want to filter out some data. I
know some characters before and after the wanted data.

I know that there is a substring method but this one use a fixed
length, a length I don't know.

How can I retriew the middle data, having a string before and after
that data?

Using regular expressions (which are directly supported by the .NET
framework) might do the trick. It does depend on the nature of your data,
though.

Ebbe

 

[John Timney \(MVP\)]

If you know the chars before and after then use indexof to identify where in
your string the identifiable bits are - and just pull out the middle using
substring and the values indexof provided.

Regards

John Timney (MVP)
http://www.johntimney.com
http://www.johntimney.com/blog

 

[Arjen]

Thanks!

Arjen

If you know the chars before and after then use indexof to identify where
in your string the identifiable bits are - and just pull out the middle
using substring and the values indexof provided.

Regards

John Timney (MVP)
http://www.johntimney.com
http://www.johntimney.com/blog