Need Help with Strings please

Suppose you have the below string

Code (CSharp):

1. "Release ID: Name-PTR With Version 2.0"

How can i get what ever is after "ID:" and what ever is Before "With Version 2.0" . The Release ID: and With Version 2.0 Part is always constant. but the PTR~~~ part is not.

 

What is this whole string's purpose? Maybe someone can help.

It's just continuing the same kind of assembly of the string, part by part. Do you understand what the

List[I].Name + 

means? You would keep doing the same sort of thing but with whatever variables has the 5555 or 1.00 information.

 

Hey i'm sorry, i made a much simpler example in original post!

 

So you have the string, and you want to extract parts of it out?

My tool of choice is a regular expression. It's kind of a pattern-matching language designed to break apart strings into pieces which fit whatever rules you want.

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
2.  
3.     string data = "Release ID: Name-PTR With Version 2.0";
4.  
5.     Regex re = new Regex(@"ID: (.*) With Version");
6.     Match m = re.Match(data);
7.     if (m.Success)
8.     {
9.         string id = m.Groups[1].Value;
10.         Debug.Log("Got identifier " + id + " out of the data.");
11.     }
12.  

The above code should log

Got identifier Name-PTR out of the data.

 

Yes, I want to create new string of only the part after ID: and before Ver, I will try your code, thanks!

1 more question.. if i wanted to take out whatever comes before -PTR, from the new string, how would i do it?

 

You can extract more than one thing from the original data string all at once. Let's assume the dash is the way you keep those two parts separate.

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
2.  
3.     string data = "Release ID: Name-PTR With Version 2.0";
4.  
5.     Regex re = new Regex(@"ID: (.*)-(.*) With Version");
6.     Match m = re.Match(data);
7.     if (m.Success)
8.     {
9.         string namepart = m.Groups[1].Value;
10.         string suffixpart = m.Groups[2].Value;
11.         Debug.Log("Got name " + namepart + " and suffix " suffixpart + " out of the data.");
12.     }
13.  

The above code should log

Got name Name and suffix PTR out of the data.

 

I'd use a regex as well as above. When working with regular expressions, I keep a reference page open with all the syntax, such as this one: https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html

And I also use a program called Regex Coach to prototype them:
http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/