How to separate first and last name from variable

March 11, 2022

I have a property:

public string Name {get; set;}

that receives both first name and last name as a single string. How do I separate it into different strings? Since there is no actual name yet, Name.Split(‘ ‘) does not work.

edit: if i try to create a string array such as

string[] nameSplit = Name.Split(' ');

there is a "field initializer cannot reference the non-static field, method or property Student.Name" (Student being the class that Name property belongs to).

>Solution :

You can split the Name.set value when you get it and combine the seperate values when Name.get is called. Im not checking for nulls or spaces etc here, I leave that up to you.

public string FirstName { get; set; }
        public string LastName { get; set; }
        public string Name
        {
            get
            {
                return $"{FirstName} {LastName}";
            }
            set
            {
                var parts = value.Split(' ');
                FirstName = parts[0];
                LastName = parts[1];
            }
        }