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

:P

Just a note, I think that most of the algorithms here wont check if you have 2 or more spaces together, so it might get a space as the second word.

I don't know if it the best way, but I had a little fun linqing it :P (the good thing is that it let you choose the number of spaces/words you want to take)

        var text = "a sdasdf ad  a";
        int numSpaces = 2;
        var result = text.TakeWhile(c =>
            {
                if (c==' ')
                    numSpaces--;

                if (numSpaces <= 0)
                    return false;

                return true;
            });
        text = new string(result.ToArray());

I also got @ho's answer and made it into a cycle so you could again use it for as many words as you want :P

        string str = "My Test String hello world";
        int numberOfSpaces = 3;
        int index = str.IndexOf(' ');     

        while (--numberOfSpaces>0)
        {
            index = str.IndexOf(' ', index + 1);
        }

        string result = str.Substring(0, index);