String Format

[Dark Kai]

Hi, need some help from u guys/gals out there.
Ive this code :

dim Test as string = "ThisIsMyString"
test.format("{0:####-##-##-######}".test)

Im trying to format it so that the output will be = "This-Is-My-String"

this line of code will only work if i change the type of test to numaric.

Thanks in advance.

 

[hog]

Not sure if this helps but if the string you will be formatting is always going to be camel cased you could use the string.split method?

 

[Hamburger1984]

you could also use Regular Expressions

you find the classes you need in the Namespace "System.Text.RegularExpressions"

[VB]Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions

Public Sub Test()
Dim regex = New Regex( "(?<word>[A-Z][^A-Z\s\n]+)", _
RegexOptions.None)
Dim testText as String = "ThisIsSomeCamelCaseText"
Dim result as String = regex.Replace(testText,"${word}-")
result = result.SubString(0,result.Length-1)
Console.WriteLine(result)
End Sub[/VB]

Hope this helps!

Andreas

 

[samsmithnz]

Originally posted by Hamburger1984
you could also use Regular Expressions

you find the classes you need in the Namespace "System.Text.RegularExpressions"

[VB]Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions

Public Sub Test()
Dim regex = New Regex( "(?<word>[A-Z][^A-Z\s\n]+)", _
RegexOptions.None)
Dim testText as String = "ThisIsSomeCamelCaseText"
Dim result as String = regex.Replace(testText,"${word}-")
result = result.SubString(0,result.Length-1)
Console.WriteLine(result)
End Sub[/VB]

Hope this helps!

Andreas

Nice solution... but... Ouch! What a way to start a Monday morning...

 

[Hamburger1984]

Originally posted by samsmithnz
Nice solution... but... Ouch! What a way to start a Monday morning...

why "ouch"?!?!? you didnt see that messy code I had to tidy up this morning for one of my co-workers.... THAT was a bad way to start a Monday morning

 

[samsmithnz]

Originally posted by Hamburger1984
why "ouch"?!?!? you didnt see that messy code I had to tidy up this morning for one of my co-workers.... THAT was a bad way to start a Monday morning

Not messy... but its hard for me to look at regular expressions so early in the morning, i hate them

 

[Dark Kai]

Wowwww......The code works....
but I think you are only checking the char case rite ??
hehehehhehe do the same but instead of char case we check number of char

Thanks a lot Hamburger1984.
BTW could u explain a bit more bout this line of code Regex( "(?<word>[A-Z][^A-Z\s\n]+)", _
RegexOptions.None)

 

[Hamburger1984]

RegularExpressions are used to find matches in strings. they use a special pattern-syntax to find those matches (you could compare them to those patterns you use to find files in Windows - "*.txt" -> find every file with the extension ".txt")... the pattern I used means the following:

"(?<word>...)" - is a named group (you could omit this - I just needed this for the replace-statement later...

"[A-Z]" - matches one(!) uppercase Letter

"[^A-Z\s\n]+" - matches anything except(!) (thats why theres a "^") any uppercase Letter "A-Z", a whitespace "\s" or a newLine-char "\n".... the "+" just tells the how many of those letters should be matched - in this case at least one. ("*" would match any number 0-n...)

Hope this helps!

Andreas

 

[Hamburger1984]

Originally posted by samsmithnz
Not messy... but its hard for me to look at regular expressions so early in the morning, i hate them

well when I started using them I also hated them.. but since I only use them for quite easy purposes (and not at work) I started likeing them..

 

[Dark Kai]

Thanks for the great info Hamburger1984 and also not forgeting others that have contributed.

So there are no way to do the formating that i wanted .

 

[Hamburger1984]

Originally posted by Dark Kai
So there are no way to do the formating that i wanted .
[...]
dim Test as string = "ThisIsMyString"
test.format("{0:####-##-##-######}".test)

Im trying to format it so that the output will be = "This-Is-My-String"

no I dont think you can to it as you wanted to.... the String.Format-Method is as far as I know only for formatting Numbers (Integer,Single,Double etc) but not for applying new Formats to strings... I guess youve gotta go the "hard" Regex-Way...

Andreas