So, I'm pulling a field from a table in a database.
This field has about 4 or 5 tag words in it - each separated by a comma (",").
The first tag word in each record is all I need (for this particular function).

So, the question is, how do I extract the first string of characters up to (not including) the first comma?

heh, never mind. I got it.

Substring(0, dbReader["Tags"].ToString().Trim().IndexOf(','));

substring using index of.... I'm a dork.

thanks anyway

you could probably also do the following:

dbReader["Tags"].ToString().Trim().Split(",")[0]

Not really sure if it works, but I think it would.

When I'm doing something like that I like to split, as stbuchok said