c# substring carriage return

Question

hi I have a string variable "MyAddress" which contains 5 lines of text:

Address1: abc

Address2: def

Suburb: ghi

State: jkl

Country: mno

I also have 5 string variables called: strAddress1, strAddress2, strSuburb, strState, and strCountry.

Is it possible to use a method such as substring to retrieve the related values from MyAddress and put the 5 string variables? e.g. get "abc" for strAddress1.

thanks in advance!

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Answer 1

Hi,
instead of substring the string value you can use the namevaluecollection.
have a look at this link.hope it helps.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.collections.specialized.namevaluecollection.aspx

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Answer 2

char[] splitString = { '\n' };
char[] splitPart = { ':' };

string[] parts = s.Split(splitString);
for (int i = 0; i < parts.Length; i++) {
    string[] pieces = parts[i].Split[splitParts];
    switch (i) {
        case 0:
            strAddress1 = pieces[1].Trim();
            break;
        case 1:
            strAddress2 = pieces[1].Trim();
            break;
        case 2:
            strSuburb = pieces[1].Trim();
            break;
        case 3:
            strState = pieces[1].Trim();
            break;
        case 4:
            strCountry = pieces[1].Trim();
            break;
    }
}

There is no error checking in this code, it assumes there are 5 parts to the original string and that each substring has 2 parts seperated by a :

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Answer 3

thanks Ron for your quick reply. I want to specifically look for the strings like "Address2" and "State:", is it possible to achieve?

thanks again!

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Answer 4

Hi,
using substring we can get but its not a correct way of doing this.if you want you can try out my suggestion.

 private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            NameValueCollection addColl = new NameValueCollection();
            addColl=CreateAddress();
            string country = addColl["Country"].ToString();
            MessageBox.Show(country);
            
        }
        private NameValueCollection CreateAddress()
        {
            NameValueCollection address = new NameValueCollection();
            address.Add("Addr1", "Abc");
            address.Add("Addr1", "South");
            address.Add("Addr1", "Texas");
            address.Add("State", "chennai");
            address.Add("Country", "India");
            return address;
        }

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Answer 5

NameValueCollection lines = new NameValueCollection();
foreach(string line in MyAddress.Split(Environment.NewLine))
{
    string[] parts = line.Split(':');
    lines.Add(parts[0].Trim(), parts[1].Trim());
}
strAddress1 = lines.Get("Address1");
strAddress2 = lines.Get("Address2");
strSuburb = lines.Get("Suburb");
strState = lines.Get("State");
strCountry = lines.Get("Country");

Answer 6

If I understand it better then you mean to say that you have a 5 lines of Address i.e. a '\r\n' character in between. 

See if this code works for you.

            string str = @"Address1: abc
Address2: def
Suburb: ghi
State: jkl
Country: mno";
            string[] arr = str.Split('\n');
            for (int i = 0; i < arr.Length ; i++)
            {
                switch (i)
                {
                    case 0:
                        strAddress1 = arr[i].Replace("Address1: ", ""); 
                        break;

                    case 1:
                        strAddress2 = arr[i].Replace("Address2: ", "");
                        break;
                    case 2:
                        strSuburb = arr[i].Replace("Suburb: ", "");
                        break;

                    case 3:
                        strState = arr[i].Replace("State: ", "");
                        break;
                    case 4:
                        strCountry = arr[i].Replace("Country: ", "");
                        break;
                    
                    default:
                        break;
                }

                
            }

This is just a round about work, Moreover this is not the right approach. Try to implement Dictionary and store values in  Key Value Pair

Thanks 

Ratz