string.split question

[jashimu]

hi All, I am having trouble doing some string manipulation. I get a string with coma delimited. I want remove the first portion of the string. for example,strMessage = " I, Have, a, string, that, describe, something" what I want to do is that remove the first coma delimited part of the variable strMessage so it look like this "Have, a, string, that, describe, something" how do I do this. Any help appreciated. then I insert the string in my datagridview.

datagridview.Rows.Insert(0,strMessage.Split(','))

I want to keep this style of inserting into dataGridView just want to remove the first portion of the string which is "I". thanks

[Luc Pattyn]

string.Split() is the method you want; it has a few overloads, so I refer to its documentation. BTW: you won't solve problems any faster by putting as much as possible into a single statement. Split things up, and look at the intermediate values while debugging. :)

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[Dan Mos]

this is quite simple for the case you stated. That is just the first comma. Use IndexOf. Something like:

str.Substring(str.IndexOf(",") + 1).TrimStart();//the TrimStart eliminates the white space after the "I,"

All the best, Dan

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[realJSOP]

string[] parts = strMessage.Split(",");
for (int i = 0; i < parts.Length; i++)
{
parts[i] = parts[i].Trim();
}
dataGridView.Rows.Insert(0, parts);

But don't you need to ensure that the number of parts matches the number of columns you have in the row?

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