Custom .ToString like method??

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Hi
Let say I have a class which looks something like this:

public class MyClass
{
public static readonly string MyObject = "Myobj.ClientName";
}

I'm not going to dive into why things are the way they are... this is what I have to work with. Thing is, I need only the bit after the '.' so I use substring to get all string after the '.'. In other places in the application the entire string is used as is.

I want to do this in a simpler form. I want to do something like this:

MyClass.MyObject.ToShort();

So it will work a lot like .ToString and only return something specific.

How can I add .ToShort to the class??

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

Posted 22-Nov-10 19:46pm

NeCroFire

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Solution 1

Hi
you have to add following method like

C#

public static string ToShort(string strsql)
{
   return "";
}

//you can access 
MyClass.ToShort(MyClass.MyObject);

Posted 22-Nov-10 19:59pm

Sunasara Imdadhusen

Solution 2

Yes you can add ToShort, try coding it.

you may also override ToString if you want to

Posted 22-Nov-10 20:01pm

gaurav_verma_mca

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JOAT-MON · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-22T20:25:00

Solution 3

Since you are using .NET 3.5, there is a way to create extension methods that can be used against strings. In your case it would be something like:

C#

public static string ToShort(this string s)
{
    return s.Substring( 6 );
}

The key here is the this identifier in the parameter. Code sample derived from this[^] article by Mike Gold.

Posted 22-Nov-10 20:25pm

JOAT-MON

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NeCroFire 23-Nov-10 3:00am

This looks like it will work. Only thing is that everything needs to be static which should be fine for what we're doing.

Thanks

Sunasara Imdadhusen 23-Nov-10 23:43pm

Good answer!!

Sunasara Imdadhusen 23-Nov-10 23:43pm

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