app.config problem in reading multiple values per key, very stuck no idea

[Peted]

hello, i have a app.config file like so
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuratio n>
<appSettings>
<add key="rdbUser1Cp u1" value="Cpu1,tes t"/>
</appSettings>
</configuration>

I understand it is possible to have mutliple values per key that when
you use getvalues is suppoded to return a String[] but it dont seem to
work

Eg

String[] temp;

temp = ConfigurationMa nager.AppSettin gs.GetValues("r dbUser1Cpu1");

this compiles and runs fine with no errors except

it does not return a string array with 2 elements houseing each
seperate value

(What i expected was temp[0] =" Cpu1" and temp[1] = "test" )

instead it returns a single element array of "Cpu1,test1 " in the first
index.

temp[0] = "Cpu1,test"
temp[1] = out of bounds index

Am i misunderstandin g how it should work, or am i doing this wrong.

thanks for any help

Peted

[Peter Duniho]

Peted wrote:

hello, i have a app.config file like so
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuratio n>
<appSettings>
<add key="rdbUser1Cp u1" value="Cpu1,tes t"/>
</appSettings>
</configuration>

I understand it is possible to have mutliple values per key that when
you use getvalues is suppoded to return a String[] but it dont seem to
work

Well, I think it's obvious that there's no reason to expect the comma
character to be somehow understood as a delimiter for a string array.

As far as the specific question goes, IMHO a better approach to dealing
with this sort of issue would be to go the other way, by calling
NameValueCollec tion.Add() with each element in a string array and then
looking at what the resulting XML looks like.

Now, that said, while I haven't done much myself with this area of the
API, I will bet you anything that if you simply include multiple "add"
records for a given key, that would do exactly what you want. For example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuratio n>
<appSettings>
<add key="rdbUser1Cp u1" value="Cpu1"/>
<add key="rdbUser1Cp u1" value="test"/>
</appSettings>
</configuration>

Pete

[Peted]

>

>Now, that said, while I haven't done much myself with this area of the
API, I will bet you anything that if you simply include multiple "add"
records for a given key, that would do exactly what you want. For example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration >
<appSettings>
<add key="rdbUser1Cp u1" value="Cpu1"/>
<add key="rdbUser1Cp u1" value="test"/>
</appSettings>
</configuration>

Pete

No that dont work
Ive already tried this, if you multiple add statements withe the same
key name you get this below as ive shown it
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<configuratio n>
<appSettings>
<add key="rdbUser1Cp u1" value="Cpu1,tes t"/>
</appSettings>
</configuration>

multiple add statements result in comma delimited string as in my
example

this is why i do expect the comma to be the delimter for the returned
string array. From everything ive read on the net it should work the
way im expecting it to work but it does not.

Other people on the net have asked exactly the same question but i
cannot find a single instance of any explanation or an example of why
it does not work or how it can be made to work.
any advice appreciated

thanks

Peted

[Alexander]

Hi,

If the comma should be a delimiter, isn't it just possible to split the
string:

String[] temp =
ConfigurationMa nager.AppSettin gs.GetValues("r dbUser1Cpu1").T oString().Split (',');

- Alexander
"Peted" wrote in message news:jr******** *************** *********@4ax.c om...

hello, i have a app.config file like so
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuratio n>
<appSettings>
<add key="rdbUser1Cp u1" value="Cpu1,tes t"/>
</appSettings>
</configuration>

I understand it is possible to have mutliple values per key that when
you use getvalues is suppoded to return a String[] but it dont seem to
work

Eg

String[] temp;

temp = ConfigurationMa nager.AppSettin gs.GetValues("r dbUser1Cpu1");

this compiles and runs fine with no errors except

it does not return a string array with 2 elements houseing each
seperate value

(What i expected was temp[0] =" Cpu1" and temp[1] = "test" )

instead it returns a single element array of "Cpu1,test1 " in the first
index.

temp[0] = "Cpu1,test"
temp[1] = out of bounds index

Am i misunderstandin g how it should work, or am i doing this wrong.

thanks for any help

Peted

[Peted]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:19:33 +0200, "Alexander" <[e-mail] ote:

>Hi,

If the comma should be a delimiter, isn't it just possible to split the
string:

String[] temp =
ConfigurationM anager.AppSetti ngs.GetValues(" rdbUser1Cpu1"). ToString().Spli t(',');

- Alexander

I dont know why i didnt think of that, i will try it

thanks

Peted