How to extract data from a string?

Question

Regular Expressions

Hello. The line looks like this:
{" level " : 1 , " moves " : 15}, {" level " : 2 , " moves " : 28}, {" level " : 3 , " moves " : 25
} moves. For example, I pass "2" to the method, it returns "28". How to do it?

Answer 1

1. Wrap the string in square brackets [ ] on both sides and then you can interpret the final string as JSON:
   
2. Using JSON parsing tools, get an array of objects,
   
3. in which (using LINQ) find the object that has the desired level, and take the value of its moves