How to skip starting 2 words from a string in c#

Question

How to ignore the first 2 words of a string

like:

String x = "hello world this is sample text";

in this the first two words are hello world, so i want to skip them, but next time maybe the words will not be the same, like maybe they become, "Hakuna Matata", but the program should also skip them.

P.S : don't not suggest remove characters it won't work here i guess, because we don't know what is the length of these words, we just want to skip the first two words. and print the rest.

Answer 1

Please try this code:

   String x = "hello world this is sample text";

   var y = string.Join(" ", x.Split(' ').Skip(2));

It will split string by spaces, skip two elements then join all elements into one string.

UPDATE:

If you have extra spaces than first remove extra spaces and remove words:

String x = "hello world this is sample text";
x =  Regex.Replace(x, @"\s+", " ");
var y = string.Join(" ", x.Split(' ').Skip(2));

UPDATE:

Also, to avoid extra spaces as suggested by Dai (in below comment) I used Split() with StringSplitOptions:

String x = "hello       world       this is      sample text";
var y = string.Join(" ", x.Split((char[])null, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).Select(i => i.Trim()).Skip(2));