Using LINQ to parse the numbers from a string

Question

Is it possible to write a query where we get all those characters that could be parsed into int from any given string?

For example we have a string like: \"$%^DDFG

Answer 1

The following should work.

var myString = "$%^DDFG 6 7 23 1";

//note that this is still an IEnumerable object and will need
// conversion to int, or whatever type you want.
var myNumber = myString.Where(a=>char.IsNumber(a)).Take(3);

It's not clear if you want 23 to be considered a single number sequence, or 2 distinct numbers. My solution above assumes you want the final result to be 672