how to display comma seperated values one by one inside a grid

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I have a datagrid and inside the grid I have five columns. In one column, I am displaying comma seperated values which are unOrganized.the gridview is like

Col1          Col2          Col3                   Col4           Col5
 1             a         [acvdfvd], [dfasfsd        20              10
                         dfdfs],[sdfdsf][sadsa
                         fsfesf],[adsdas],
                         [dsfsdfdf],[dfss]

 2             b             "                       30              20

Now, I want to show the values like this,

Col1          Col2          Col3                   Col4           Col5  
 1             a          [acvdfvd],                 20              10
                          [dfasfsddfdfs],
                          [sdfdsf],
                          [sadsafsfesf],
                          [cxadsdas],
                          [dsfsdfdf],
                          [dfss]

  2             b             "                       30              20

This will atleast be understandable. Pleace help me on how to do it. Thanks.

Posted 12-Feb-13 19:26pm

Anusha Sridhar

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Nandakishore G N 13-Feb-13 2:14am

use rowdatabound..split the values for ',' and append break ('<br/>') after every comma...and reappend it to the same label

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mimtiyaz · Answer 1 · 2013-02-12T20:11:00

Solution 1

You can use nested grid for col 3 to display comma separated values.

Add gridview property : onrowdatabound="parent_RowDataBound" to parent gridview

C#

protected void parent_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
    {
        // Bind child gridview here...
    }
}

Try this out..

Posted 12-Feb-13 20:11pm

mimtiyaz

Updated 12-Feb-13 21:23pm

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TanvirRaihan 13-Feb-13 3:44am

Why to use nested grid ? If the question is how to display it line by line, then on row_databound event, we can get the actual string and split it by comma(,) and then join them with a line break in between each splitted item and set the new string in grid's cell.

Pallavi Waikar · Answer 2 · 2013-02-12T20:39:00

go through following link...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14456826/c-line-break-instead-of-comma-separated-values-in-gridview[^]
in that code in Literal tag use

Text='<%# string.Join("<br />,", Eval("Values").ToString().Split(new []{","},StringSplitOptions.None)) %>'

becouse u want separate values by , and they have values on next line but , is removed from values..

Mohammed.Gafoor · Answer 3 · 2013-02-12T20:42:00

By using Repeater we can easily achieve this.

1) Build MainRepeater with your Main Data with the columns of [Col1,Col2,Col3,Col4,Col5].

2) Inside of Col3 ,Insert one nested Repeater called splitRepeater.

3) Write a ItemDatabound event of MainRepeater and Split the the Value of Col3 with Comma(,) and Find SplitRepeater and Bind the Array of Splitted String.

vinodkumarnie · Answer 4 · 2013-02-12T21:52:00

First bind string separated by comma to a label...

Then in RowDataBound...

C#

protected void GridView1_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
        {
               Label lblcol3 = (Label)e.Row.FindControl("lblcol3");
               string temp = lblcol3.Text;
                if (temp != "")
                {
                    string[] temporary = temp.Split(',');
                    int length = temporary.Count();
                    StringBuilder db = new StringBuilder();
                    bool first = true;
                    if (length > 0)
                    {
                        foreach (string word in temporary)
                        {
                            if (word == "," || word == "")
                            {
                                break;
                            }
                            else
                            {
                                if(!first)
                                {
                                   db.Append("," + "<br />");
                                   
                                }
                                
                                   db.Append(word);// adding              
                            }
                        }
                        lblcategory.Text = db.ToString(); // final string
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        
                    }
        }
    }

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