GridView custom column display.

[typingcat]

Hello.
It was very easy to display the contents of a table in a database using
the GridView. But I wonder if this is possible. The field 'e-mail'
contains original e-mail addresses, but for security reason, I would
like to omit some part of them. For example,

Original field data : so*****@microsoft.com
Displayed in GridView : [e-mail] (replace 3 characters
left side of @)

If I use the old way (manually querying and outputting using
<table>...) it will take some time but not a hard job. I just want to
know wheter I can do this with GridView or not. Please let me know if
you have any idea. Thank you.

[typingcat]

As wating for a nice reply, I tried to solve it myself.
protected void GridView1_RowDataBound(object sender,
GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
if (e.Row.Cells.Count > 1)
{
StringBuilder temp=new StringBuilder(e.Row.Cells[1].Text);
int whereisat = e.Row.Cells[1].Text.IndexOf("@")-1;
for(int i=0; i<3; i++)
{
if (whereisat < 1)
break;
temp[whereisat - i] = '.';
}
e.Row.Cells[1].Text = temp.ToString();
}
}
where Cells[1] is the e-mail field. It worked as I expected but is
there any better way to do this job?

ty*******@gmail.com wrote:

Hello.
It was very easy to display the contents of a table in a database using
the GridView. But I wonder if this is possible. The field 'e-mail'
contains original e-mail addresses, but for security reason, I would
like to omit some part of them. For example,

Original field data : so*****@microsoft.com
Displayed in GridView : [e-mail] (replace 3 characters
left side of @)

If I use the old way (manually querying and outputting using
<table>...) it will take some time but not a hard job. I just want to
know wheter I can do this with GridView or not. Please let me know if
you have any idea. Thank you.

[Eliyahu Goldin]

This is one of the correct ways.

Eliyahu

<ty*******@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:11**********************@g14g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...

As wating for a nice reply, I tried to solve it myself.
protected void GridView1_RowDataBound(object sender,
GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
if (e.Row.Cells.Count > 1)
{
StringBuilder temp=new StringBuilder(e.Row.Cells[1].Text);
int whereisat = e.Row.Cells[1].Text.IndexOf("@")-1;
for(int i=0; i<3; i++)
{
if (whereisat < 1)
break;
temp[whereisat - i] = '.';
}
e.Row.Cells[1].Text = temp.ToString();
}
}
where Cells[1] is the e-mail field. It worked as I expected but is
there any better way to do this job?

ty*******@gmail.com wrote:

Hello.
It was very easy to display the contents of a table in a database using
the GridView. But I wonder if this is possible. The field 'e-mail'
contains original e-mail addresses, but for security reason, I would
like to omit some part of them. For example,

Original field data : so*****@microsoft.com
Displayed in GridView : [e-mail] (replace 3 characters
left side of @)

If I use the old way (manually querying and outputting using
<table>...) it will take some time but not a hard job. I just want to
know wheter I can do this with GridView or not. Please let me know if
you have any idea. Thank you.