How to get second value via c# StartsWith() method

Question

string text = "Today is a good day for help. **David Diaz He went to school.  **David Diaz like apple. ";

How to get how many times the text **David Diaz occurs in the string text?

UPDATED MY QUESTION

Answer 1

By using StartWhith you can check if the string starts whit ** if it is take the first two words of the string whits will represent the name

        string text = "**David Diaz He went to school.";

        if (text.StartsWith("**"))
        {
            var names = text.Split(' ')
                .Take(2)
                .ToArray();
            var fullName = names[0] + " " + names[1];
        }

UPDATE

As you said in the commend you want to look how many David Diaz occurs in one string, you can use regex for that.

  string text = "Today is a good day for help. **David Diaz He went to school. **David Diaz like apple. ";

        int matches = Regex.Matches(
            text,
            @"(?:\S+\s)?\S*David Diaz\S*(?:\s\S+)?",
            RegexOptions.IgnoreCase
        ).Count;

Answer 2

Updated Answer: It sounds like you want to find the number of times a substring exists in your text. For that, you'll want to use RegEx.Matches, as explained in this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3016577/682840

or LINQ, as explained in this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/541994/682840

Original Answer:

.StartsWith returns true/false if the string begins with the search string you provide. If you're wanting to know where a substring exists within your text, you'll need to use .IndexOf or a Regular Expression for more advanced scenarios.

IndexOf will return the location in the text where your provided search string starts (or -1 if it isn't found).

Answer 3

var text = "Today is a good day for help. **David Diaz He went to school. **David Diaz like apple. ";

var pos = 0;
var num = 0;
var search = "**David Diaz";
 while ((pos = text.IndexOf(search, pos)) > -1)
{
    num ++;
    pos += search.Length;
}

Console.WriteLine(num);

you can try out this in dotnetfiddle