I have to parse out the system name from a larger string. The system name has a prefix of "ABC" and then a number. Some examples are:
ABC500
ABC1100
ABC1300
the full string where i need to parse out the system name from can look like any of the items below:
ABC1100 - 2ppl
ABC1300
ABC 1300
ABC-1300
Managers Associates Only (ABC1100 - 2ppl)
before I saw the last one, i had this code that worked pretty well:
string[] trimmedStrings = jobTitle.Split(new char[] { '-', '–' },StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
.Select(s => s.Trim())
.ToArray();
return trimmedStrings[0];
but it fails on the last example where there is a bunch of other text before the ABC.
Can anyone suggest a more elegant and future proof way of parsing out the system name here?
(?<=ABC)[0-9]+
should get you straight to the numeric part.