Long String

[Kenny]

Hi

I'm sending a long string to a web service like this

field1,field2,field3,field4,field5,field6,field7+f ield1,field2,field3,field4,field5,field6,field7..

On the web service I need to read and to parse it in order to fill a DataSet and to update the DB,so do I have to use the String class' methods inside a Do-While or there is a more powerfull way to do it

Thks

[Derek Harmon]

"Kenny" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:97**********************************@microsof t.com...

field1,field2,field3,field4,field5,field6,field7+f ield1,field2,field3,field4,field5,field6,field7...

do I have to use the String class' methods inside a Do-While or there is a more powerfull
way to do it?

I'd use String.Split( ), first on '+' to get an array of rows; then on ',' to get an array of
the columnal values for each row. It's certainly the most straightforward, provided the
separators ('+' and ',') don't occur within the values.

The classes in the System.Text.RegularExpressions namespace could also be used,
but I think a regexp would be overkill.
Derek Harmon

[Cor]

Hi kenny,

I would do a split on the ","

It is typed here so watch typos and errors
\\\
Dim mytext() as string = mysendedstring.split(","c)
dim mysingletext as string
for each mysingletext in mytext
'dosomething
next
///

I hope this helps,

Cor

Hi

I'm sending a long string to a web service like this:

field1,field2,field3,field4,field5,field6,field7+f ield1,field2,field3,field4
,field5,field6,field7...
On the web service I need to read and to parse it in order to fill a DataSet and to update the DB,so do I have to use the String class' methods
inside a Do-While or there is a more powerfull way to do it?
Thks

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "=?Utf-8?B?S2Vubnk=?=" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> scripsit:

I'm sending a long string to a web service like this:

field1,field2,field3,field4,field5,field6,field7+f ield1,field2,field3,field4,field5,field6,field7...

On the web service I need to read and to parse it in order to fill a DataSet and to update the DB,so do I have to use the String class' methods inside a Do-While or there is a more powerfull way to do it?

Have a look at the string's 'Split' method or the 'Strings.Split' method.

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Kenny,
Why a delimited string as opposed to sending an XML Node or a DataSet?

With an XML Node you don't have to worry if one of your fields have either a
+ or a , in them.

With a DataSet you don't have to worry about parsing it into a DataSet!

As the others have pointed you can use Split to parse your input string.

There are three Split functions in .NET:

Use Microsoft.VisualBasic.Strings.Split if you need to split a string based
on a specific word (string). It is the Split function from VB6.

Use System.String.Split if you need to split a string based on a collection
of specific characters. Each individual character is its own delimiter.

Use System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegEx.Split to split based
on matching patterns.

Hope this helps
Jay

"Kenny" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi

I'm sending a long string to a web service like this:

field1,field2,field3,field4,field5,field6,field7+f ield1,field2,field3,field4
,field5,field6,field7...
On the web service I need to read and to parse it in order to fill a DataSet and to update the DB,so do I have to use the String class' methods
inside a Do-While or there is a more powerfull way to do it?
Thks

[Cor]

Hi Jay B,

Missed you already

No need to explain.

:-)

Cor