extracting strings

im having a problem and its frustrating

im trying to read entries from a text file, and extract just the city names

the format is something like this:


cityname, 213, 45, 7.5
cityname2, 7, 254, 12, 445

..
..

i cant seem to extract the text, the cityname properly. how do i go about extracting the cityname? remember - city names can have spaces inbetween them....i need to get it to from the start to the the first numeric number

thanks!

Will the city name ever have a comma in it? If not, you could try using something like this

Code:

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string                strIn                = "cityname, 213, 45, 7.5\n"+
                                                        "cityname2, 7, 254, 12, 445";
string[]        strCities        = strIn.Split('\n');

foreach ( string str in strCities )
{
        MessageBox.Show( str.Substring(0,str.IndexOf(",")) );
}

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