Get index of first detected space after a certain index in a string

Question

In a string to format (mostly to replace chars with different symbols for rendering test on UI), I have to detect % and then skip all chars util first space from this % char and it has to be repeated for all instances in the string.

E.g. abcd%1$s efgh %2$d ijkl .In this string, I have to get index of % and then find index of first space from that. Basically, I have to skip this %1$s & %2$d which are some sort of formatting placeholders. I hope, I am not putting it in complex way here.

Answer 1

You can get that pretty easily, just grab the index if the first percent sign and then leverage that index to find the first space from there:

var start = myString.IndexOf("%");
var spaceIndex = myString.IndexOf(" ", start)

of course the value of myString is the string you represented in your question.