I have two string array lists and I want to compare a portion of the string. I can use except method to find the differences but how to take a portion of the the string and compare?
For instance
File1:
PartA_Rev1
File2:
PartA_Rev2
I want to compare only the first portion of the string (PartA)
Thanks
Maybe I missunderstood you, but wouldnt substring work?
str1.substring(0,5).equals(str2.substring(0,5))
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In vba I am openening a table from access with a column that look like the following:
1300nm11-53-0202 0302.SOR
I would like to look for the very first time "nm" is found in the string and write everything that is before that into a variable "strGolfLengte" (so In this case strGolflengte would be "1300")
NB:
I can't be sure that there won't be several nm's in the string, I just want to look for the first time they are found.
NB2:
The string before nm could be "n" characters, in all cases, I want the full lenght (n) of the string written in strGolflengte
I would use the `instr()' function like this:
strGolfLengte = left(myLine,instr(1,myLine,"nm",1))
I think it is the easiest way to do this:
strGolfLengte = Split(myLine,"nm")(0)
I need to store an alphanumeric string in an integer column on one of my models.
I have tried:
#result.each do |i|
hex_id = []
i["id"].split(//).each{|c| hex_id.push(c.hex)}
hex_id = hex_id.join
...
Model.create(:origin_id => hex_id)
...
end
When I run this in the console using puts hex_id in place of the create line, it returns the correct values, however the above code results in the origin_id being set to "2147483647" for every instance. An example string input is "t6gnk3pp86gg4sboh5oin5vr40" so that doesn't make any sense to me.
Can anyone tell me what is going wrong here or suggest a better way to store a string like the aforementioned example as a unique integer?
Thanks.
Answering by request form OP
It seems that the hex_id.join operation does not concatenate strings in this case but instead sums or performs binary complement of the hex values. The issue could also be that hex_id is an array of hex-es rather than a string, or char array. Nevertheless, what seems to happen is reaching the maximum positive value for the integer type 2147483647. Still, I was unable to find any documented effects on array.join applied on a hex array, it appears it is not concatenation of the elements.
On the other hand, the desired result 060003008600401100500050040 is too large to be recorded as an integer either. A better approach would be to keep it as a string, or use different algorithm for producing a number form the original string. Perhaps aggregating the hex values by an arithmetic operation will do better than join ?
I was getting weird results when doing multiple splits on a string, so I decided to make a simple test to figure out what was going on
testString "1234567891011121314151617181920"
If I wanted to get whats between 10 to 20 in Javascript I would do this:
var results = testString.split("10")[1].split("20")[0]
Which would return 111213141516171819
However when I do this in VB I get 111
Split(testString,"10")(1).Split("20")(0)
It seems the 2nd split is only recognizing the first character no matter what I put.
So it's stopping when it finds the next "2" in the string, even "2abc" would have the same outcome even though that string doesn't even exist.
String.Split does not have an overload that takes only a String. The argument is a Char array or String array. Your string is probably being converted to a char array. Explicitly pass a string array like so:
testString.Split(New String() { "10" }, StringSplitOptions.None)
Try wrapping the second split so it's fashioned like the first one, i.e.:
Split( Split(testString,"10")(1), "20" )(0)"
Vb treats the delimiter argument only as a single character.
This is a tricky scenario that I have seen trip people up before, so I think it is worth a little more explanation than the other answers give. In your original format Split(testString,"10")(1).Split("20")(0), you are unknowingly using two DIFFERENT Split functions.
The first Split(testString,"10") is using the Microsoft.VisualBasic.Strings.Split function, which takes String type parameters. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.visualbasic.strings.split(v=vs.110).aspx
The second .Split("20")(0) is using System.String.Split method, which does not have an overload that takes a String parameter. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/System.String.Split(v=vs.110).aspx
So what was happening is:
Split(testString,"10") uses Microsoft.VisualBasic.Strings.Split, which
returns new String() {"123456789", "11121314151617181920"}
(1) means get 1st position of the returned array, which is "11121314151617181920"
"11121314151617181920".Split("20")(0) uses System.String.Split, and attempts to split on string separator "20"
NOTE: The string "20" param gets implicitly converted to a char "2" because the only single parameter overload of String.Split has a signature of Public Function Split (ParamArray separator As Char()) As String(). The ParamArray parameter option allows you to pass a comma delimited list of values into the function, similar to how String.Format works with a dynamic # of replacement values. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/538f81ec.aspx
Step 3 code becomes "11121314151617181920".Split(new Char() {CChar("20")})(0), which using literal values is "11121314151617181920".Split(new Char() {"2"c})(0). The result is {"111", "13141516171819", "0"}. Get the 0th position, returns "111".
So to avoid confusion, you should convert your code to use the same version of Split on both sides.
Either of the 2 examples below should work:
Example 1: Using Microsoft.VisualBasic.Strings.Split:
Split( Split(testString,"10")(1), "20" )(0)
Example 2: Using System.String.Split:
testString _
.Split(New String() {"10"}, StringSplitOptions.None)(1) _
.Split(New String() {"20"}, StringSplitOptions.None)(0)
I am interested in searching a string (using objective-c) starting from a specific character in the middle of the string. I could split the string, but is there another way? I don't see an obvious option for that in the definition of NSString. I want to be able to search either backwards or forwards in the string starting from a defined character.
-[NSString rangeOfString:options:range:]. Use the range parameter to tell the string to only look in a sub-portion of the original string for the search string.
i have a string that looks like this
"apples,fish,oranges,bananas,fish"
i want to be able to sort this list and get only the uniques. how do i do it in vb.net? please provide code
A lot of your questions are quite basic, so rather than providing the code I'm going to provide the thought process and let you learn from implementing it.
Firstly, you have a string that contains multiple items separated by commas, so you're going to need to split the string at the commas to get a list. You can use String.Split for that.
You can then use some of the extension methods for IEnumerable<T> to filter and order the list. The ones to look at are Enumerable.Distinct and Enumerable.OrderBy. You can either write these as normal methods, or use Linq syntax.
If you need to get it back into a comma-separated string, then you'll need to re-join the strings using the String.Join method. Note that this needs an array so Enumerable.ToArray will be useful in conjunction.
You can do it using LINQ, like this:
Dim input = "apples,fish,oranges,bananas,fish"
Dim strings = input.Split(","c).Distinct().OrderBy(Function(s) s)
I'm not a VB.NET programmer, but I can give you a suggestion:
Split the string into an array
Create a second array
Cycle through the first array, adding any value that is not in the second.
Upon completion, your second array will have only unique values.