Filtering a String

Whats the best way to go about filtering out text from a String (1 line)

For example, I need to grab "CP6111DYSXB759" from the following line (There are always 4 spaces at the beginning of the line, but the text after is varys in length). Im thinking maybe the Trim function, and I know how to remove the starting spaces, it's the crap at the end I'm not sure of.

Quote:

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CP6111DYSXB759 <00> UNIQUE Registered

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There must be a key string you know where to end. In your example, it should be "<00>". Then you can find out the position of "<00>" and get the sub-string before that position. Is it what you want?

Sonny

Thats exactly what I'm looking for, however the "<00>" can also change, so " <" would be the best bet. Which function will give me the pos of that sub?

You might look at the Split method, as long as the substring you're looking for ends with a space... IndexOf would also work to find the first deliminator/space...

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Originally posted by High_D
Thats exactly what I'm looking for, however the "<00>" can also change, so " <" would be the best bet. Which function will give me the pos of that sub?

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You should be able to use split or indexof with the '<' or the space.

you can also use a RegEx and looking from the begin to a mark which not is a char or a number.

Can you spot the new line?

Code:

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else if(split[p]=="=")
{
        nbtStats += "\t" + split[p+1].TrimEnd(new Char[] {' ','\n'});
        nbtStats += this.WhoOwnsThisMAC(split[p+1].TrimEnd(new Char[] {' ','\n'}));
}

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This is the output

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144.250.247.42 DL130JZ11 00-08-74-2B-13-94
Dell Computer Corp.

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It seems to add a new line feed after the MAC is printed...If I just print out "test" after the mac it also jumps to the next line (so it's not a word wrap or that line itself, it must be the MAC line).

Any suggestions?

I cut my losses and SubStringed it... ;)

Code:

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nbtStats += "," + split[p+1].Substring(0,split[p+1].Length-6);

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