Removing The End Of A String Based On A Value In The String In An ASP.NET Text Box

.NET
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I have a textbox used to store comments in an ASP.NET application. When the user updates the database, the comment and the phrase “Last Updated By: [userName]” is inserted into the database.

What I would like to do is find the phrase “Last Updated By:” and remove it and all characters after it until the end of the string.
One more things, the userName is not always the same length.

Any ideas how I would do that?

Thanks again.

Chris

2

You can use the Substring method combined with the IndexOf method:

string comment = "This is random comment from database before clipping Last Updated By: NightStalker";
string clippedComment = comment.Substring(0, comment.IndexOf("Last Updated By:")).Trim();

This code will work, but it is obviously excluding any error handling which might be a good idea to add. To do some fact checking before executing this code is to move the IndexOf method to it’s own int

int endIndex = comment.IndexOf("Last Updated By:");

if (endIndex > 1)
{
    string clippedComment = comment.Substring(0, endIndex).Trim();
}

I hope that helps