How to get value from combobox using substring in C#

Question

I have a combo box which have item strings like:

1 .  Apple
2 .  Banana
3 .  Mango 

1,2,3 are category id & Apple, Banana, Mango is Category Name.

I want to know Category Id From comboBox using Category name which is sub-string of ComboBox item.

example:

I want to know the Category Id of Banana. which is 2.

Any help ?

Answer 1

Use this code to an event that should be after you selected the item in comboBox :

        string []str;
        str = comboBox1.Text.Split(' ');
        string categoryId = str[0];