c# parsing a string to 2 seprate string values

Question

Good evening all,

i have been trying to get this to work for a while now,

so example of the text.

Found YouTube URL for "Faceless 1-7 - Download My Conscious" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d2ovu4IMdE

i want just the stuff insde the "" and the youtube url

i have tryied.

        public void splitstrings(string path)  
        {  
                if(path.Contains("Found YouTube URL for"))  
            {  
                var content = path;  
                var parts = content.Split(':'); // split on spaces  
  
                var string1 = parts.First();  
                var string3 = parts.Last();  
                var theRest = content;  
                string1.Replace("Found YouTube URL for \"\" ","");  
            }  
                else  
            {  
  
            }  
  
              
        }  

so what i want as a result is,

string 1 to be Artist's name ( the text inside the quotes ) and,
string 2 to be the youtube url,

but cant seem to get the desired result as it wont remove anything just give me a print out of it unedited

thank you in advance.
elfenliedtopfan5

Answer 1

How to proceed depends very much on how consistent is the
data format. Assuming all lines have the same format as
the example, then maybe this example will give you some
ideas.

static void Main(string[] args)  
 {  
     string path =  
         @"Found YouTube URL for ""Faceless 1 - 7 - Download My Conscious"" : " +  
         "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d2ovu4IMdE";  
     int x = path.IndexOf("\"");  
     int y = path.IndexOf("\"", x+1);  
     string title= path.Substring(x+1, y - x - 1);  
  
     int urlstrt = path.IndexOf("http");  
     string url = path.Substring(urlstrt);  
  
     Console.WriteLine(title);  
     Console.WriteLine(url);  
  
     Console.ReadLine();  
  
 }  
   
 /*  
Faceless 1 - 7 - Download My Conscious  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d2ovu4IMdE  
*/  

• Wayne