How Do I Get First XX Words From A Variable?

[kaybee123]

Hey guys!

I've been digging the forums and the help and I can't find the answer to this!

I have a variable (It's a title):
"This is a long title post about cats and dogs" ---> Original variable

And I only want to take the first 5 words of the title to assign it to a new variable.
So... it would be:

"This is a long title" -------> This should be my new title

How should I be doing this?!?

Thanks! I'm stuck and I can't move forward in my project until I figure this out!

 

[kaybee123]

Anyone ? :o

 

[Radzhab]

 var s = "This is a long title post about cats and dogs";
            var line = "";
            var words = s.ToString().Split(' ').ToList().Take(5);
            foreach (var word in words)
            {
                line += word + " ";
            }

            line = line.Trim(); // This is a long title

 

[Radzhab]

Hardcore version

var s = "This is a long title post about cats and dogs";
string title = string.Join(" ",s.ToString().Split(' ').ToList().Take(5));

 

[kaybee123]

Oh, thank you! I know this is basic csharp but I don't code... so this is useful! thx

 

[kaybee123]

Ahhh if I can hire anyone to complete my bot/macro... I would do it.

Can I pay anyone here to finish this thing ?

Let me know!

 

[Radzhab]

Read books Csharp for sharp kids. Excellent book http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/18e291aa-ec8a-4449-afe3-6161778ff30d/c-for-kids

 

[bigcajones]

Take your string and do a regex on it with \w+ with Matches No. 0-4 and put results to list. Do list processing and merge list items with string separator of {-String.Space-}

 

[kaybee123]

Take your string and do a regex on it with \w+ with Matches No. 0-4 and put results to list. Do list processing and merge list items with string separator of {-String.Space-}

@bigcajone hah I love it!