Splitting a String into only 2 parts

Question

I want to take a string from a textbox (txtFrom) and save the first word and save whatever is left in another part. (the whatever is left is everything past the first space)

Answer 1

There is an overload of the String.Split() method which takes an integer representing the number of substrings to return.

So your method call would become: string[] array = txtFrom.Text.Split(' ', 2);

Answer 2

You simply combine a split with a join to get the first element:

string[] items = source.Split(new char[] { ' ' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

string firstItem = items[0];
string remainingItems = string.Join(" ", items.Skip(1).ToList());

You simply take the first item and then reform the remainder back into a string.

Answer 3

Use String.Split(Char[], Int32) overload like this:

string[] array = txtFrom.Text.Split(new char[]{' '},2);

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c1bs0eda.aspx

Answer 4

You can also try RegularExpressions

Match M = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(source,"(.*?)\s(.*)");
M.Groups[1] //Bob
M.Groups[2] // jones went to the store

The regular expression matches everything up to the first space and stores it in the first group the ? mark tells it to make the smallest match possible. The second clause grabs everything after the space and stores it in the second group

Answer 5

char[] delimiterChars = { ' ', ',' };
string text = txtString.Text;

string[] words = text.Split(delimiterChars, 2);

txtString1.Text = words[0].ToString();
txtString2.Text = words[1].ToString();