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So i have a button and two text boxes.
I want to click a button, it will execute nslookup then i want to :

-write the resolved hostname into one text box

-write the resolved ip adress into next text box 

I have this so far

    System.Diagnostics.Process p = new System.Diagnostics.Process();

                System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo psi = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo();

                psi.FileName = "nslookup.exe";

                psi.Arguments = "google.com";



                psi.RedirectStandardOutput = true;

                psi.UseShellExecute = false;



                psi.CreateNoWindow = false;

                p.StartInfo = psi;

                p.Start();



                p.WaitForExit();



                System.IO.StreamReader output = p.StandardOutput;



                textbox1.Text = output.ReadToEnd().ToString();

So now it does the resolution and writes everything into one string.
How can i filter the output string and write specific parts of the string into separate boxes ?

Example output string will be : ( it is a single line string but i wrote it here in a table for easy understanding )

Server:  EXAMPLE //this i dont need

Address:  EXAMPLE //this i dont need



Name:    google.com //i need this to be written to TextBox1

Address: 172.217.21.206 //i need this to be written to TextBox2

So that in the end :

Textbox.Text = "google.com"

Textbox2.Text = "172.217.21.206"

Later i want to ping the ip in textbox2 and make the text box change color if its reachable, and a button to rdp connect to that ip if its reachable, so i need it to not have any spaces and just be a string

I was thinking to write each word that is separated by a space into an array and then read the array and write things that match into the boxes with something like this :

string words = outputstring.Split(' ');



        foreach (var word in words)

        {

            System.Console.WriteLine($"<{word}>");

        }

But before i continue with it i wanted to ask if there is an easier and faster way to do it and im going in the wrong direction alltogether ? maybe there is a way to just return specific parameters out of the nslookup command ?

You can use Dns.GetHostEntry instead of manually calling external process:

IPHostEntry hostInfo = Dns.GetHostEntry("example.com");

textbox1.Text = hostInfo.HostName;

textbox2.Text = hostInfo.AddressList[yourIndex].ToString();

Regular expressions can help you here. Here's how you could retrieve the name, for the address it would be similar:

Regex.Match(text, @"Name: *(?<name>[^ ]+)").Groups["name"].Value