Extract the last word from a string using C#

Question

My string is like this:

string input = \"STRIP, HR 3/16 X 1 1/2 X 1 5/8 + API\";

Here actually I want to extract the last word, \'API\', an

Answer 1

string workingInput = input.Trim();
string last = workingInput.Substring(workingInput.LastIndexOf(' ')).Trim();

Although this may fail if you have no spaces in the string. I think splitting is unnecessarily intensive just for one word :)