How do I extract a substring from a string until the second space is encountered?

Question

I have a string like this:

\"o1 1232.5467 1232.5467 1232.5467 1232.5467 1232.5467 1232.5467\"

How do I extract only \"o1 1232.5467\"?

Answer 1

Use a regex: .

Match m = Regex.Match(text, @"(.+? .+?) ");
if (m.Success) {
    do_something_with(m.Groups[1].Value);
}