Suppose I have the string str = "слово1^слово2^слово3^...^словоN" . How do I get the "word1"?

You can use str.Split('^')[0] , but it seems to me that for large N this is not entirely rational, I do not need other "words".

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    The string.Split method has an overload that accepts the maximum number of substrings to return:

     var str = "слово1^слово2^слово3^...^словоN"; var words = str.Split(new char[] { '^' }, 1); Console.WriteLine(words.Length); // 1

    This is effective in the case of large N.

    I will clarify.

    If you need to get one first value, I would take a method from another answer with Substring + IndexOf .

    If you need to get the first few values, I would take the Split method with the count parameter.

      Maybe then so?

       str = "слово1^слово2..."; String word = str.Substring(0, str.IndexOf('^'));

      We look, where for the first time the delimiter occurs, choose a substring ...