Extract only right most n letters from a string

Question

How can I extract a substring which is composed of the rightmost six letters from another string?

Ex: my string is "PER 343573". Now I want to extract only "343573".

How can I do this?

Answer 1

using Microsoft.visualBasic;

 public class test{
  public void main(){
   string randomString = "Random Word";
   print (Strings.right(randomString,4));
  }
 }

output is "Word"

Answer 2

Another solution that may not be mentioned

S.Substring(S.Length < 6 ? 0 : S.Length - 6)

Answer 3

using System;

public static class DataTypeExtensions
{
    #region Methods

    public static string Left(this string str, int length)
    {
        str = (str ?? string.Empty);
        return str.Substring(0, Math.Min(length, str.Length));
    }

    public static string Right(this string str, int length)
    {
        str = (str ?? string.Empty);
        return (str.Length >= length)
            ? str.Substring(str.Length - length, length)
            : str;
    }

    #endregion
}

Shouldn't error, returns nulls as empty string, returns trimmed or base values. Use it like "testx".Left(4) or str.Right(12);

Answer 4

Here's the solution I use... It checks that the input string's length isn't lower than the asked length. The solutions I see posted above don't take this into account unfortunately - which can lead to crashes.

    /// <summary>
    /// Gets the last x-<paramref name="amount"/> of characters from the given string.
    /// If the given string's length is smaller than the requested <see cref="amount"/> the full string is returned.
    /// If the given <paramref name="amount"/> is negative, an empty string will be returned.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="string">The string from which to extract the last x-<paramref name="amount"/> of characters.</param>
    /// <param name="amount">The amount of characters to return.</param>
    /// <returns>The last x-<paramref name="amount"/> of characters from the given string.</returns>
    public static string GetLast(this string @string, int amount)
    {
        if (@string == null) {
            return @string;
        }

        if (amount < 0) {
            return String.Empty;
        }

        if (amount >= @string.Length) {
            return @string;
        } else {
            return @string.Substring(@string.Length - amount);
        }
    }

Answer 5

This isn't exactly what you are asking for, but just looking at the example, it appears that you are looking for the numeric section of the string.

If this is always the case, then a good way to do it would be using a regular expression.

var regex= new Regex("\n+");
string numberString = regex.Match(page).Value;

Answer 6

string SubString = MyString.Substring(MyString.Length-6);