C# String Slice, Get Substring Between Indexes

Develop a Slice extension method on the string type. Slice gets a substring between 2 indexes.

String slice. A string can be sliced. No Framework method exists. We provide a custom extension method. By slicing a string, we extract the characters from index one to index two. This is essentially the same as calling Substring with 2 index values.Substring

Function/Input/Output: Slice(1,4) Peaceful eac Slice(3,-2) The morning is upon us. morning is upon u

Example. With the JavaScript slice method, you pass it the start index, which must always be >= 0. The second parameter can be any integer. When it is negative, it means you start from the end and then count backwards.

Note: In JavaScript you can omit the second parameter. To duplicate this, create an overload that uses Length - 1 as the second parameter.

Info: The first character of the second test, which is similar to the Mozilla test, shows the first character as a space.

Correct: My interpretation is that this is correct. The space is at index 3, while "m" is index 4.

C# program that slices strings using System; class Program { static void Main() { // // Tests from Mozilla // Console.WriteLine("Peaceful".Slice(1, 4)); // eac Console.WriteLine("The morning is upon us.".Slice(3, -2)); // " morning is upon u" string s = "0123456789_"; // // These slices are valid: // Console.WriteLine(s.Slice(0, 1)); // First char Console.WriteLine(s.Slice(0, 2)); // First two chars Console.WriteLine(s.Slice(1, 2)); // Second char Console.WriteLine(s.Slice(8, 11)); // Last three chars } } public static class Extensions { /// <summary> /// Get the string slice between the two indexes. /// Inclusive for start index, exclusive for end index. /// </summary> public static string Slice(this string source, int start, int end) { if (end < 0) // Keep this for negative end support { end = source.Length + end; } int len = end - start; // Calculate length return source.Substring(start, len); // Return Substring of length } } Output eac morning is upon u 0 01 1 89_

This is an extension method. It can be used with syntax as though it were on the string class. To create an extension method, simply use the this keyword as the first parameter in a static method, which is in a static class.Static Extension

The required input and output is adapted from the Mozilla Developer Center, which has documentation on JavaScript. To this end, we will have a Slice method equivalent to the JavaScript slice method.

Correct? An earlier implementation of Slice shown on this article was incorrect when handling the end parameter. The article was corrected based on the changes noted in the array slice article on this site.Array Slice

Summary. Here we saw an implementation of the Slice method in the C# programming language. The code here is an extension method, which provides very simple syntax for callers. We used the extension method because it makes the syntax clearer.

However: In some projects it would be better to use a normal static method. But Slice is useful enough to warrant an extension method.

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