Mapping a string in a collection of fields

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Is there a way/lib/solution to mapp a string into a dictionary whatever in order to have a direct access to the parts of the string I mean:

string a = "NAME#####SURNAME####TEL#######ADDRESS######SSN#########WHATEVER#####";

var x = map(a);
print x.Name;
print x.Surname;
print x.Address;
...

Posted 4-Oct-12 9:03am

ozwaldo

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 4-Oct-12 15:12pm

Why doing such an obscure things? What did you try?
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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2012-10-04T09:24:00

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I would create a class to encapsulate it - you could call it "Map" if you wanted.
Actually breaking it into it's constituent parts is simple:

C#

string a = "NAME#####SURNAME####TEL#######ADDRESS######SSN#########WHATEVER#####";
string[] parts = a.Split(new char[] {'#'}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

You can then define constants to access each part by it's index into the parts array.

Posted 4-Oct-12 9:24am

OriginalGriff

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ozwaldo 4-Oct-12 15:53pm

Hmm, not sure as solution because I didn´t mentioned that the # is just a filler and may or may not appear.
This string usually commes from a mainframe response and is known as fixed length text fields so there is no delimiters.

OriginalGriff 5-Oct-12 3:28am

If it's fixed fields, it's even easier - just use string.Substring to extract the parts, then string.Trim to remove trailing junk (such as the '#' characters if they exist). It has an overload which allows you to specify the characters to remove: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d4tt83f9.aspx

ozwaldo 4-Oct-12 15:56pm

I've found a good solution here http://layoutstr.codeplex.com/ and seems to attend my needs.