Is there an easy way to do this in a foreach...

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Hi All,

I'm trying to use a foreach to split up a string as follows with this inside the loop

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if (subString.StartsWith("#")||(subString.StartsWith("E"))||(subString.StartsWith("XX/XX/XXXX")))
                TextReplyTrim += subString+"\n";

The Data I need is generally preceded by a '#' in one case an 'E' the only other problem issue is the time and date it appends the time correctly but does not see the date the time is presented as #15:53:23 19/12/2012 this get the time time grabbed as #15:53:23 space this then get processed as #15:53:23 the date is lost
but by showing all the items in subString with a message box it shows the date as 19/12/2012 but I can't seem to find a way to get the date, included via the if() I really need to seperate this as a string rather than the date time routines ?.

Glenn (confused)

Posted 19-Dec-12 5:15am

glennPattonWork3

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AnkitGoel.com 19-Dec-12 11:24am

unable to understand what u want. can u explain?

Killzone DeathMan 19-Dec-12 11:31am

Agree!

glennPattonWork3 19-Dec-12 11:31am

Sorry got distracted by the phone as I was typing this, The issue is I can seperate all the parts of the string apart from the time date is returned as #15:53:23 19/12/2012, using the foreach() and the if() I can seperate out the time as it starts with a '#' I get #15:53:23, the space is chopped out as delimeter I just need a way to get 19/12/2012 hence the abortive subString.StartsWith("xx/xx/xxxx");

AnkitGoel.com 19-Dec-12 11:37am

please elaborate by example. your input and required output.

glennPattonWork3 19-Dec-12 11:56am

I need a method of finding a the string 19/12/2012 and adding it to the rich text box, other versions of subString are found using the lead character ( a # and an E) what I was thinking of doing, again the telephone! was checking to see if the string was of the length, another blooming phone call!!

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2012-12-19T05:45:00

Use a regex - you can select based on alternatives and also on digits. For example:

\d\d/\d\d/\d{4}

Would match 19/12/2012 and 01/06/1996 etc.
I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to do without sample input and outputs, but a regex is probably the way to go if you need to do complex text comparisons - that is exactly what they were developed for.

Get a copy of Expresso [^] - it's free, and it examines and generates Regular expressions.

glennPattonWork3 · Answer 2 · 2012-12-19T06:02:00

So for all the people I managed to confuse here the solution I worked out
while being bothered on the phone was-is

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foreach (string subString in TextReply.Split(delimiters))
        {

            if (subString.StartsWith("#") || (subString.StartsWith("E")))
            {
                TextReplyTrim += subString + "\n";
            }
            //MessageBox.Show(subString +" "+subString.Length.ToString());
                if ((subString.Length == 10))//.Substring(1, 1) == "/"))
                {
                    MessageBox.Show("Hurrzzah!");
                    TextReplyTrim += subString + "\n";
                }
        }

Thanks listening I will look at using Regex as Original Griff keeps suggesting once I get chance to. Oh my the b******* phone!
Glenn

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