How can I get only the first line from an string?

Question

example:

string str = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, 

consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor 

invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum.";



string firstline;

How can I get just the first line from the string "str" into the string "firstline"?

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Answer 1

Assuming your string really contains new lines (\r and \n), you can use:

string line1 = str.Split(new [] { '\r', '\n' }).FirstOrDefault()

How can I get only the first line from an string?

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