splitting specific characters from a line

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Dear Sir/Madam,

here in the below path with square brackets how can i get the

filename "Sample.doc".

[D:\Employee management system\EMP details11\Sample.doc]

Posted 20-Nov-11 18:58pm

ANANTH P

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Solution 3

you can get as

C#

string ss=@"D:\Employee management system\EMP details11\Sample.doc";
            string[] split = ss.Split(new Char[] { '\\' });

            ArrayList al = new ArrayList();

            foreach (string s in split)
            {

                if (s.Trim() != "")
                    al.Add(s);
            }
            Console.WriteLine(al[3].ToString());

Posted 20-Nov-11 19:21pm

uspatel

Solution 1

This is fairly easy to do.

Give it a try - using Basic String Operations[^] should give you an idea.
If you still run into issues, post them here and someone will help you.

Posted 20-Nov-11 19:02pm

Abhinav S

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Nov-11 2:13am

Makes sense, voted 5, but it does not teach good practical code. For example, please see my comment to the answer by JF2015.
--SA

Abhinav S 21-Nov-11 3:12am

Yes true. Thanks for the 5 though.

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**JF2015** · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-20T19:16:00

Here is one quick hack that gives you the solution (C#):

C#

string test = @"[D:\Employee management system\EMP details11\Sample.doc]";
string res = test.Replace("[", "");
res = test.Replace("]", "");
res = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(res); //res gives you "sample.doc"

VB.NET:

VB

Dim test As String = "[D:\Employee management system\EMP details11\Sample.doc]"
Dim res As String = test.Replace("[", "")
res = test.Replace("]", "")
res = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(res) 'res gives you "sample.doc"

and here is another one (C#):

C#

string test = @"[D:\Employee management system\EMP details11\Sample.doc]";
string res = test.Replace("[", "");
res = test.Replace("]", "");
string[] splits = res.Split('\\');
res = splits[splits.Length - 1]; //res gives you "sample.doc"