Form field place holders in strings

[Andy B]

If I have the following text in a dataset table column: "This agreement
establishes that {BandName} will play on {EventDate} between {StartTime} and
{EndTime}..." How would I then take the field names {BandName}, {StartTime},
{EndTime} and {EventDate}, match them up with actual dataset table column
names, and show the actual values instead of the placeholders on the final
page output? I know this would probably require some string parsing and
stuff, but I need some good direction here. The other thing is that this
whole thing is totally dynamic. I wont know any of the text or placeholder
names (or table column names) in advance. These forms are being creating
from a wizard control (including what form fields are used). Any ideas on
where to get started?

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

"Andy B" <a_*****@sbcglobal.netwrote in message
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Any ideas on where to get started?

Regular Expressions. RegEx was made for requirements just like this. E.g. a
while a go I needed to scrape the contents of an HTML page and retrieve the
various <option /elements from with a <select /element. This is how I
did it:

objRegEx = new Regex("<option value((.|\n)*?)</option>",
RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
foreach (Match objMatch in objRegEx.Matches(strHTML))
{
if (objMatch.ToString().IndexOf("%]") 0)
{
strOutput +=
objMatch.ToString().Substring(objMatch.ToString(). IndexOf(">") + 1);
strOutput = strOutput.Substring(0, strOutput.IndexOf("[")) + "\n";
}
}

You could certainly use something similar for your own requirements.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourc...expressions%22
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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
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