Splitting Strings

[Pacmaney]

I'm trying to split this string variable by the first character and then convert it to an iteger but I can't seem to remember the code necessary,sorry to make a post on such trivial matters.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace WindowsApplication1
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void btnQ1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            //Variables
            string accountnumber;
            int checknumber;

            //Get number
            accountnumber=Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.InputBox("Enter the account number","Account Validation","",300,300);
            
            //Get checknumber
            checknumber = int.Parse(accountnumber.Substring(1));
            MessageBox.Show(checknumber.ToString());


        }
    }
}

[jA_cOp]

[cpp]int firstCharAsNumber = Convert.ToInt32(accountnumber.Substring(0, 1));[/cpp]

[jmanmc]

Just access the first element in the string, in C++ you use the [] operator. Set an int to that element like so.

std::string string = "Facepunch.\n";
int a = string[0]

[gparent]

[QUOTE=jmanmc;17983553]Just access the first element in the string, in C++ you use the [] operator. Set an int to that element like so.

std::string string = "Facepunch.\n";
int a = string[0][/QUOTE]

That doesn't convert it to an integer in either C# or C++.