Splitting Strings

I am writing a script to equip weapons when you collide with the pickup version of them. I named all of the pickups: "Pickup Weaponname". Here is the collision part:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
3.     {
4.         if ( collision.gameObject.name == "zombie" )
5.         {
6.             Destroy(collision.gameObject);
7.         }
8.     }
9.  

I want it to split the name of what it collided with (the Collision collision part) into the first 6 characters and the rest of the characters (not counting space). Then if the first 6 chars are Pickup it prints the end part with in the example would be "Weaponname". Please help!

 

Code (csharp):

1. string pickup = "Pickup EnergySword";
2. string weaponName = pickup.Substring(7);
3. Debug.Log(weaponName);

There's quite a few ways to do this, and many that are much more robust, such as String.Split() with the delimiter being the whitespace. You can read about other string methods here.

 

Thanks! I liked your post @Iron-Warrior

 

@Iron-Warrior Substring does not work it errors this: Assets/Collision.cs(17,46): error CS1061: Type `Collision' does not contain a definition for `Substring' and no extension method `Substring' of type `Collision' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

 

Also Substring is red

 

You would need to call the method on the gameObject.name, not the collision itself.

 

thx @Iron-Warrior