C# array get last item from split in one line

Question

I know that this works to get the first item of an array

string aString = @"hello/all\this\is/a\test";
string firstItemOfSplit = aString.Split(new char[] {'\\', '/'})[0];
//firstItemOfSplit = hello

is there a way to get the last item? Something like

string aString = @"hello/all\this\is/a\test";
string lastItemOfSplit = aString.Split(new char[] {'\\', '/'})[index.last];
//lastItemOfSplit = test

Answer 1

You could always use LINQ:

string lastItem = aString.Split(...).Last();

Note that Enumerable.Last() is optimized when working on an IList<T> and you're not applying a predicate - so it's not even going to walk over the sequence to find the last one. (Not that it's likely to be an issue anyway.)