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Find an array in a string

I am working with the Selenium API in C#.
I try to read a script and get the needed values from that.
string attackable_villages = web.FindElement(By.XPath("//*[#id='content_value']/script[1]")).GetAttribute("innerHTML");
richTextBox1.Text = attackable_villages;
The result I get:
result.scrollBound = {
x_min: 0,
x_max: 999,
y_min: 0,
y_max: 999
};
result.tileSize = [53, 38];
result.screenKey = 'bf14559d';
result.topoKey = 4133874391;
and many more..
But there is this:
result.thisiswhatiwant= [1value1, 1value2, 1value3, 1value4..], [2value1, 2value2, 2value3, ...], [...]
How can I just get that array without the rest and split all elements after "],"
I hope you can help me!

// Split the script in its individual statements
var splitArray = script.Split(';');
// Get the statement you're interested in
var line = splitArray.Where(x => x.Contains("result.thisiswhatiwant")).First();
// Remove all characters except numbers and commas, then split by comma
var values = Regex.Replace(line, "[^0-9,]", string.Empty).Split(',');
Testing with this input:
string script = "test; result.thisiswhatiwant=[1,2,3]; three;";
gives me an array of length 3 (with values 1/2/3 respectively).
You can also use Single(...) instead of Where(...).First() if the statement occurs only once.

Finding longest word in string

Ok, so I know that questions LIKE this have been asked a lot on here, but I can't seem to make solutions work.
I am trying to take a string from a file and find the longest word in that string.
Simples.
I think the issue is down to whether I am calling my methods on a string[] or char[], currently stringOfWords returns a char[].
I am trying to then order by descending length and get the first value but am getting an ArgumentNullException on the OrderByDescending method.
Any input much appreciated.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace TextExercises
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var fileText = File.ReadAllText(#"C:\Users\RichardsPC\Documents\TestText.txt");
var stringOfWords = fileText.ToArray();
Console.WriteLine("Text in file: " + fileText);
Console.WriteLine("Words in text: " + fileText.Split(' ').Length);
// This is where I am trying to solve the problem
var finalValue = stringOfWords.OrderByDescending(n => n.length).First();
Console.WriteLine("Largest word is: " + finalValue);
}
}
}

Don't split the string, use a Regex
If you care about performance you don't want to split the string. The reason in order to do the split method will have to traverse the entire string, create new strings for the items it finds to split and put them into an array, computational cost of more than N, then doing an order by you do another (at least) O(nLog(n)) steps.
You can use a Regex for this, which will be more efficient, because it will only iterate over the string once
var regex = new Regex(#"(\w+)\s",RegexOptions.Compiled);
var match = regex.Match(fileText);
var currentLargestString = "";
while(match.Success)
{
if(match.Groups[1].Value.Length>currentLargestString.Length)
{
currentLargestString = match.Groups[1].Value;
}
match = match.NextMatch();
}
The nice thing about this is that you don't need to break the string up all at once to do the analysis and if you need to load the file incrementally is a fairly easy change to just persist the word in an object and call it against multiple strings
If you're set on using an Array don't order by just iterate over
You don't need to do an order by your just looking for the largest item, computational complexity of order by is in most cases O(nLog(n)), iterating over the list has a complexity of O(n)
var largest = "";
foreach(var item in strArr)
{
if(item.Length>largest.Length)
largest = item;
}

Method ToArray() in this case returns char[] which is an array of individual characters. But instead you need an array of individual words. You can get it like this:
string[] stringOfWords = fileText.Split(' ');
And you have a typo in your lambda expression (uppercase L):
n => n.Length

Try this:
var fileText = File.ReadAllText(#"C:\Users\RichardsPC\Documents\TestText.txt");
var words = fileText.Split(' ')
var finalValue = fileText.OrderByDescending(n=> n.Length).First();
Console.WriteLine("Longest word: " + finalValue");

As suggested in the other answer, you need to split your string.
string[] stringOfWords = fileText.split(new Char [] {',' , ' ' });
//all is well, now let's loop over it and see which is the biggest
int biggest = 0;
int biggestIndex = 0;
for(int i=0; i<stringOfWords.length; i++) {
if(biggest < stringOfWords[i].length) {
biggest = stringOfWords[i].length;
biggestIndex = i;
}
}
return stringOfWords[i];
What we're doing here is splitting the string based on whitespace (' '), or commas- you can add an unlimited number of delimiters there - each word, then, gets its own space in the array.
From there, we're iterating over the array. If we encounter a word that's longer than the current longest word, we update it.

Get only numbers from line in file

So I have this file with a number that I want to use.
This line is as follows:
TimeAcquired=1433293042
I only want to use the number part, but not the part that explains what it is.
So the output is:
1433293042
I just need the numbers.
Is there any way to do this?

Follow these steps:
read the complete line
split the line at the = character using string.Split()
extract second field of the string array
convert string to integer using int.Parse() or int.TryParse()

There is a very simple way to do this and that is to call Split() on the string and take the last part. Like so if you want to keep it as a string:
var myValue = theLineString.Split('=').Last();
If you need this as an integer:
int myValue = 0;
var numberPart = theLineString.Split('=').Last();
int.TryParse(numberPart, out myValue);

string setting=sr.ReadLine();
int start = setting.IndexOf('=');
setting = setting.Substring(start + 1, setting.Length - start);

A good approach to Extract Numbers Only anywhere they are found would be to:
var MyNumbers = "TimeAcquired=1433293042".Where(x=> char.IsDigit(x)).ToArray();
var NumberString = new String(MyNumbers);
This is good when the FORMAT of the string is not known. For instance you do not know how numbers have been separated from the letters.

you can do it using split() function as given below
string theLineString="your string";
string[] collection=theLineString.Split('=');
so your string gets divided in two parts,
i.e.
1) the part before "="
2) the part after "=".
so thus you can access the part by their index.
if you want to access numeric one then simply do this
string answer=collection[1];

try
string t = "TimeAcquired=1433293042";
t= t.replace("TimeAcquired=",String.empty);
After just parse.
int mrt= int.parse(t);

Unable to Split the string accordingly

I know this question would have been asked infinite number of times, but I'm kinda stuck.
I have a string something like
"Doc1;Doc2;Doc3;12"
it can be something like
"Doc1;Doc2;Doc3;Doc4;Doc5;56"
Its like few pieces of strings separated by semicolon, followed by a number or id.
I need to extract the number/id and the strings separately.
To be exact, I can have 2 strings: one having "Doc1;Doc2;Doc3" or "Doc1;Doc2;Doc3;Doc4" and the other having just the number/id as "12" or "34" or "45" etc.
And yeah I am using C# 3.5
I understand its a pretty easy and witty question, but this guy is stuck.
Assistance required from experts.
Regards
Anurag

string.LastIndexOf and string.Substring are the keys to what you're trying to do.
var str = "Doc1;Doc2;Doc3;12";
var ind = str.LastIndexOf(';');
var str1 = str.Substring(0, ind);
var str2 = str.Substring(ind+1);

One way:
string[] tokens = str.Split(';');
var docs = tokens.Where(s => s.StartsWith("Doc", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
var numbers = tokens.Where(s => s.All(Char.IsDigit));

String docs = s.Substring(0, s.LastIndexOf(';'));
String number = s.Substring(s.LastIndexOf(';') + 1);

One possible approach would be this:
var ids = new List<string>();
var nums = new List<string>();
foreach (var s in input.Split(';'))
{
int val;
if (!int.TryParse(s, out val)) { ids.Add(s); }
else { nums.Add(s); }
}
where input is something like Doc1;Doc2;Doc3;Doc4;Doc5;56. Now, ids will house all of the Doc1 like values and nums will house all of the 56 like values.

you can use StringTokenizer functionality.
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/pseabury/JavaLikeStringTokenizer11232005015829AM/JavaLikeStringTokenizer.aspx
split string using ";"
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(src1,";");
collect final String. that will be your ID.

You may try one of two options: (assuming your input string is in string str;
Approach 1
Get LastIndexOf(';')
Split the string based on the index. This will give you string and int part.
Split the string part and process it
Process the int part
Approach 2
Split the string on ;
Run a for loop - for (int i = 0; i < str.length - 2; i++) - this is the string part
Process str[length - 1] separately - this is the int part
Please take this as a starting point as there could be other approaches to implement a solution for this

string actual = "Doc1;Doc2;Doc3;12";
int lstindex = actual.LastIndexOf(';');
string strvalue = actual.Substring(0, lstindex);
string id = actual.Substring(lstindex + 1);

How to select only the characters after a repeated symbol in a long string

If i am using C# and i have a string coming in from a database like this:
\RBsDC\1031\2011\12\40\1031-215338-5DRH44PUEM2J51GRL7KNCIPV3N-META-ENG-22876500BBDE449FA54E7CF517B2863E.XML
And i only want this part of the string:
1031-215338-5DRH44PUEM2J51GRL7KNCIPV3N-META-ENG-22876500BBDE449FA54E7CF517B2863E.XML
How can i get this string if there is more than one "\" symbol?

You can use the LastIndexOf() method of the String class:
string s = #"\RBsDC\1031\2011\12\40\1031-215338-5DRH44PUEM2J51GRL7KNCIPV3N-META-ENG-22876500BBDE449FA.xml";
Console.Out.WriteLine(s.Substring(s.LastIndexOf('\\') + 1));
Hope, this helps.

Use String.Split to split string by parts and then get the last part.
Using LINQ Enumerable.Last() :
text.Split('\\').Last();
or
// todo: add null-empty checks, etcs
var parts = text.Split('\\');
strign lastPart = parts[parts.Length - 1];

You can use a combination of String.LastIndexOf("\") and String.Substring(lastIndex+1). You could also use (only in the sample you provided) Path.GetFileName(theString).

string[] x= line.Split('\');
string goal =x[x.Length-1];
but linq will be easier

You can use regex or split the string by "\" symbol and take the last element of array
using System.Linq;
public class Class1
{
public Class1()
{
string s =
#"\RBsDC\1031\2011\12\40\1031-215338-5DRH44PUEM2J51GRL7KNCIPV3N-META-ENG-22876500BBDE449FA54E7CF517B2863E.XML";
var array = s.Split('\\');
string value = array.Last();
}
}

newstring = string.Substring(string.LastIndexOf(#"\")+1);

It seems like original string is like filePath.
This could be one easy solution.
string file = #"\RBsDC\1031\2011\12\40\1031-215338-5DRH44PUEM2J51GRL7KNCIPV3N-META-ENG-22876500BBDE449FA.xml";
string name = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(file);