Delimiters - Is there a simple way
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I have a text file of the following format "apple","orange","pear" etc I have tried both char and string seperators but can't think of a way grab the data cleanly without including a " or , . I either end up with "apple" "orange" "pear" or "apple orange pear" The code I have been using.
private static char[] charSeperator = new char[] { ',' };private static string[] strSeperator = new string[] {"\",\""};strArray = strLine.Split(charSeperator);strArray = strLine.Split(strSeperator,StringSplitOptions.None);Is there a simple way of grabing apple orange and pear from the text file, without having to do further data cleaning? Thanks in advance for any help you can offerHaz
You may want to try regular expressions...
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You may want to try regular expressions...
"too much daily WTF for someone..." - Anton Afanasyev
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haz13 wrote:
what do you mean by regular expressions?
Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression[^] http://www.regular-expressions.info/[^]
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haz13 wrote:
what do you mean by regular expressions?
Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression[^] http://www.regular-expressions.info/[^]
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Giorgi Dalakishvili wrote:
That looks like a bookmark worthy site to me :-D
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I have a text file of the following format "apple","orange","pear" etc I have tried both char and string seperators but can't think of a way grab the data cleanly without including a " or , . I either end up with "apple" "orange" "pear" or "apple orange pear" The code I have been using.
private static char[] charSeperator = new char[] { ',' };private static string[] strSeperator = new string[] {"\",\""};strArray = strLine.Split(charSeperator);strArray = strLine.Split(strSeperator,StringSplitOptions.None);Is there a simple way of grabing apple orange and pear from the text file, without having to do further data cleaning? Thanks in advance for any help you can offerHaz
using System.Text.RegularExpressions; // the namespace for using Substring strArray = strLine.Split(new char[] { ',' }; // Use this still, but with the modifications below foreach (string fruit in strArray) // a loop that runs for every piece of fruit in strArray { int fruitlength = fruit.Length; // getting the length of the fruit string fruitlength = fruitlength - 2; // subtracting 2 because of quotes string trimmedfruit = fruit; trimmedfruit = fruit.Substring(1,fruitlength); // basically the method Substring(start,length) // and the first letter starts at 0 and length is how many you want to cut out // so I took the total length of string "apple", subtracted 2 because of quotes // then started the trim at 1 just after the first qoute and pulled out all the letters // minus the qoutes }
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using System.Text.RegularExpressions; // the namespace for using Substring strArray = strLine.Split(new char[] { ',' }; // Use this still, but with the modifications below foreach (string fruit in strArray) // a loop that runs for every piece of fruit in strArray { int fruitlength = fruit.Length; // getting the length of the fruit string fruitlength = fruitlength - 2; // subtracting 2 because of quotes string trimmedfruit = fruit; trimmedfruit = fruit.Substring(1,fruitlength); // basically the method Substring(start,length) // and the first letter starts at 0 and length is how many you want to cut out // so I took the total length of string "apple", subtracted 2 because of quotes // then started the trim at 1 just after the first qoute and pulled out all the letters // minus the qoutes }
jblouir wrote:
using System.Text.RegularExpressions; // the namespace for using Substring
Sorry, but, what are you thinking ? Substring is a method on a class, you don't need a namespace to call it. string trimmedFruit = fruit.Replace("\"", ""); is even easier.
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jblouir wrote:
using System.Text.RegularExpressions; // the namespace for using Substring
Sorry, but, what are you thinking ? Substring is a method on a class, you don't need a namespace to call it. string trimmedFruit = fruit.Replace("\"", ""); is even easier.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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Your right, didn't realise. Still learning, on week 1 and a half now. At the point when I was learning how to use regular expressions I must have stumbled on to substring and assumed it was part of the namespace. and I didn't know replace even existed
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I have a text file of the following format "apple","orange","pear" etc I have tried both char and string seperators but can't think of a way grab the data cleanly without including a " or , . I either end up with "apple" "orange" "pear" or "apple orange pear" The code I have been using.
private static char[] charSeperator = new char[] { ',' };private static string[] strSeperator = new string[] {"\",\""};strArray = strLine.Split(charSeperator);strArray = strLine.Split(strSeperator,StringSplitOptions.None);Is there a simple way of grabing apple orange and pear from the text file, without having to do further data cleaning? Thanks in advance for any help you can offerHaz
haz13 wrote:
I have tried both char and string separators but can't think of a way grab the data cleanly without including a " or , . I either end up with "apple" "orange" "pear" or "apple orange pear"
I used similar code to split it. Heres some code, maybe it can help u. Input text same as u : "apple","orange","pear" etc assume the string named "str"
string[] strArray = str.split(',');
for (int i=0;iTraining makes perfect....