get all characters to right of last dash

Question

I have the following:

string test = \"9586-202-10072\"

How would I get all characters to the right of the final - so 10072. Th

Answer 1

string atest = "9586-202-10072";
int indexOfHyphen = atest.LastIndexOf("-");

if (indexOfHyphen >= 0)
{
    string contentAfterLastHyphen = atest.Substring(indexOfHyphen + 1);
    Console.WriteLine(contentAfterLastHyphen );
}

Answer 2

I created a string extension for this, hope it helps.

public static string GetStringAfterChar(this string value, char substring)
    {
        if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(value))
        {
            var index = value.LastIndexOf(substring);
            return index > 0 ? value.Substring(index + 1) : value;
        }

        return string.Empty;
    }

Answer 3

You can get the position of the last - with str.LastIndexOf('-'). So the next step is obvious:

var result = str.Substring(str.LastIndexOf('-') + 1);

Correction:

As Brian states below, using this on a string with no dashes will result in the same string being returned.

Answer 4

YourString.Substring(YourString.LastIndexOf("-"));

Answer 5

You could use LINQ, and save yourself the explicit parsing:

string test = "9586-202-10072";
string lastFragment = test.Split('-').Last();

Console.WriteLine(lastFragment);

Answer 6

I can see this post was viewed over 46,000 times. I would bet many of the 46,000 viewers are asking this question simply because they just want the file name... and these answers can be a rabbit hole if you cannot make your substring verbatim using the at sign.

If you simply want to get the file name, then there is a simple answer which should be mentioned here. Even if it's not the precise answer to the question.

result = Path.GetFileName(fileName);

see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.path.getfilename(v=vs.110).aspx