simple admin parsing?

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Hey. I was wondering if anyone knew where I could find some simple parsing code. I've done things like this before, and I know there are other things out there. Basically, I'm going to have a text box where admins can setup emails and i want them to be able to enter:
[FirstName]
[LastName]
[TextToUseIfWeOnlyHaveEmail]Sir Or Madam[/TextToUseIfWeOnlyHaveEmail]
I can certainly just do a text replace on FirstName and LastName, but the third one gets more confusing, so I tried to look for something online. I can't really think of what this would be called, so my i'm having trouble finding it... bleh. Monday mornings.

Posted 19-Dec-11 5:16am

ColinBashBash

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Wendelius · Answer 1 · 2011-12-19T05:39:00

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If you're using string.format could you use something like:

C#

string email = "";
string str = string.Format("{0}\n{1}\n{2}...", "First name","Last name", string.IsNullOrEmpty(email) ? "": "Sir Or Madam");

Posted 19-Dec-11 5:39am

Wendelius

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fjdiewornncalwe 19-Dec-11 13:38pm

Based on the OP's question, this is absolutely correct. +5.

Wendelius 19-Dec-11 14:03pm

Thanks, although it seems that my 'guess' was incorrect :)

ColinBashBash · Answer 2 · 2011-12-19T07:32:00

not really. I ended up just doing this. Still think that maybe there's some code out there to make this less manual.

C#

RegexOptions options = RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Multiline;
var unnamed = new Regex(@"\[TextIfUnnamed\](.*?)\[\/TextIfUnnamed\]", options);
var loginLink = new Regex(@"\[LoginLink\](.*?)\[\/LoginLink\]", options);

var temp = emailTemplateBody;
temp = temp.Replace("[LastName]", user.LastName);
temp = temp.Replace("[FirstName]", user.FirstName);

temp = unnamed.Replace(temp, x => x.Groups[1].Value);
temp = loginLink.Replace(temp, x => MakeLink(loginUrl, x.Groups[1].Value));

private string MakeLink(string url, string text){ return String.Format("<a href='{0}'>{1}</a'>", url, text); }