Find and extract a number from a string

Question

I have a requirement to find and extract a number contained within a string.

For example, from these strings:

string test = \"1 test\"
string test1 =         


        

Answer 1

An interesting approach is provided here by Ahmad Mageed, uses Regex and StringBuilder to extract the integers in the order in which they appear in the string.

An example using Regex.Split based on the post by Ahmad Mageed is as follows:

var dateText = "MARCH-14-Tue";
string splitPattern = @"[^\d]";
string[] result = Regex.Split(dateText, splitPattern);
var finalresult = string.Join("", result.Where(e => !String.IsNullOrEmpty(e)));
int DayDateInt = 0;

int.TryParse(finalresult, out DayDateInt);