Splitting data from an array and pulling specific data

Question

I think what i have to do is split and pull data to do the following:

I have created a class, with the following array and method getContactList. I need to create a method getFirstNames() and return all the first names from the address book into the variable firstNames in a Test class and display them on the console.

class ContactList
{
    public String[] contactList = 
    { 
    "John, Smith, jsmith@nbcc.ca, (506) 555-1234", 
    "Frank, Sinatra, fsinatra@nbcc.ca, (506) 696-1234", 
    "Joan, Rivers, jrivers@nbcc.ca, (506) 696-5678", 
    "Freddy, Mercury, fmercury@nbcc.ca, (506) 653-1234", 
    "Freddy, Kruger, fkruger@nbcc.ca, (506) 658-1234"
    };

       public String[] getContactList()
    {

        return contactList;
    }


    public String getLastNames()
    {
        string lastnames = "";

        return lastnames;
    }


}


class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        ContactList firstNames = new ContactList();
        Console.WriteLine(firstNames.getFirstNames());

        Console.WriteLine();
        Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit.");
        Console.ReadKey();

    } 

Answer 1

Better design it this way:

class ContactList
{
string firstName, lastName, eMail, ContactNo;
//Properties (getters/setters for above attributes/fields
}

class ContactListHandler
{

public List<string> GetFirstNames(string[] contactsText)
{

List<string> stringList = new List<string>();

foreach (string s in contactsText)

{
var x = contactsText.split(',');
stringList.Add(x[0]);
}

return stringList;
}

//and other functions
}

Main()
{
ContactListHandler cHandler = new ContactListHandler();
List<string> contactsString = cHandler.GetFirstNames(//your string variable containing the contacts);

foreach(string s in contactsString)
{
Console.WriteLine(s);
}
}

Yes it has increased code but only for once, now you can use it in an Object-oriented way for any string,etc.