Breaking up a string

Solamain Loch

First, I would like to apologize if the answer to my question is common knoledge, but as I am new to C# it seems that I no longer have any common sence let allone common knoledge.

Ok, put really simply I need to know the quickest/best way to separate the first word in a sentence from the rest of the sentence, and have each stored in a different string.

For example,
Start with:

Sentence = "This is the sentence I want to split up."

and end up with

String1 = "This"
String2 = "is the sentence I want split up"

The reason I am looking for the quickest way to do this is that it is something the program I am working on will have to do constantly, so any little bit of time saved will add up quickly.

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Solamain Loch18y ago
Thanks Dave, just what I needed. Had been using an array to split all the words out of the sentence and then reconstucting it. I was sure there was a better way to do it faster, and behold, there is. lol.
Dave18y ago
This is good for what ails you:

            int firstSpace, len;
      String sentence = "This is the sentence I want to split up.";
      firstSpace = sentence.IndexOf(' ');

      String firstWord = sentence.Substring(0, firstSpace);
      sentence = sentence.Substring(firstSpace + 1);

      Console.WriteLine(firstWord);
      Console.WriteLine(sentence);