Your debugger is showing to you that arr[0] contains char '0' which is the same as short 48.

short number = 48;
char letter = '0';
Console.WriteLine(number == letter); // --> prints True

Hope, this makes is clear.

Hi Luc, Im sure you know that :), but the first line doesnt compile. Its an invalid string literal. One have to use

strind path = @"d:\songs\audio\asd.mp3";

or

string path = "d:\\songs\\audio\\asd.mp3";

Greets Matthias

Maybe this[^] is helpful for you.

I guess you meant: -you could use a collection that sorts itself everytime you add/remove an item; :)

Company A owns 25% of company B and 90% of itself = 0.25 * 1M + 0.90 * 2M = 2.05 M Company B owns 10% of company A and 75% of itself = 0.10 * 2M + 0.75 * 1M = 0.95 M Which is in sum 3 M. Everything else would be financial math :laugh: Greets Matthias

You should have a look at this step by step article for developing a multiline comment regex: http://ostermiller.org/findcomment.html[^]

Not tested:

public List<string> SplitLine(string line)
{
List<string> items = new List<string>();

MatchCollection matchCollection = Regex.Matches(line, "\"[^\"]*\"|[^\"]*");
foreach (Match match in matchCollection)
{
string group = match.Value.Trim();
if (group != string.Empty)
{
if (group[0] == '"')
{
items.Add(group.Trim(new char[] {'"'}));
}
else
{
//items.AddRange(group.Split(new char[] {'"'}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)); sorry, should be
items.AddRange(group.Split(new char[] {' '}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries));
}
}
}
return items;
}

Hope this helps.

modified on Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:48 AM

Looking forward and all the best for you Matthias

Pallab_GT wrote:

Can you refer me some other text editor

See this thread[^] [edit] link corrected [/edit]

Pallab_GT wrote:

Can you refer me some other text encoding

ASCII

Pallab_GT wrote:

I have used UTF-8 encoding

In UTF8 you could have coded space (0x20) into hard space (0xA0), would give you 1 bit for hidden data per space in carrier file (assuming the original file don't have hard spaces). There are many more possibilities. Thats all nice, but not really new. Matthias

Pallab_GT wrote:

You wont notice any change whatsoever in the file content using any text editor.

That's the whole point. I don't believe that. How many different text-editors have you tried? Whats the text-encoding of your files? Matthias

Ok, so you change the text file at bit-level, of cource you can use this to "hide data". But consinder, text files are interpreted by editors (programs). Any editor may / may not react to your changes, and EVERY hex-editor / binary compare tool will notice the differences. So the changes are not hidden, and the whole secret is based on your algorithm (of coding your data into bit-changes). Therefore it's not a secret at all. Matthias

Ok, to make a long story short: I think, it's impossible. I think, all necessary was said by parmfleet. I think, it's a miracle (I don't believe in algorithm miracles). In this sense, yes it's new. Matthias

... and any more tricks, but this will hide the data only on his own box ... [edit](and only for him)[/edit] :-D Matthias

Luc Pattyn wrote:

ASCII is a 7-bit code

Hmm, I know, but I don't know any Text-Editor that would not reflect the MSB-Bit set to 1. :zzz: Matthias

If you have done it with techniques like Alternate Data Stream[^] , then it's not really data hiding. Please describe your idea. Matthias

Read this article: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/csnsort.aspx[^]

oops, absolutly right Regards

Put $ at the end: "([^0-9]{0,}[0-9][^0-9]{0,}){10}$" Regards

You could try this function, should work:

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

public string EntryName(string line)
{
Regex regex = new Regex(@"[^ ]+[ ]+[^ ]+[ ]+[^ ]+[ ]+[^ ]+[ ]+[^ ]+[ ]+[^ ]+[ ]+[^ ]+[ ]+[^ ]+[ ]+(?<ENTRY>.*)");
Match match = regex.Match(line);
return match.Groups["ENTRY"].Value.Trim();
}

Regards

To make it more clear, this is a sample listing:

drwxr-x--- 2 ftp ftp 8192 Nov 19 12:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 ftp ftp 8192 Nov 19 12:35 ..
-rw-r----- 1 someone someone 8639750144 Nov 19 12:14 this_is_a_long_file_name.dat
-rw-r----- 1 ftp ftp 6260006912 Nov 19 13:13 shortname.dat

The filename (or directory name) is the 9. group (delimited by whitespace) until line end. Regards