I have a userform in 2008 vb express edition. A part number is created from user input via a concat string. I want to then check if a certain portion of the part number exists in the existing file names in a directory. Below is a more detailed explanation.[code]...
View 2 RepliesQuick query...I'm trying to scan a long string and return any values that occur between the tags <FileName> and </FileName> I've got a bit of code here to use regular expressions to return the position of the occurunces of both substrings..Just wanted to find out if there is any way to scan for both substrings within one loop (as im currently doing 2, one for the first substring and one for the 2nd) so I can use something along these lines:
ringlist = Mid(XMLRESP, (startloc + 1), (endloc - 1))
MsgBox(ringlist)
to msg box the value between the substrings...either that or another approach to return the value between the 2 substrings (it can be of variable length)
Dim patternstart As String = "<FileName>"
Dim patternend As String = "</FileName>"
Dim matchesstart As MatchCollection = Regex.Matches(XMLRESP, patternstart)
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I was wondering what the easiest way is to get a portion of text from a string for example, you have:
"example1,example2,example3"
And i need to be able to get all three of the items separate:
"example1"
"example2"
"example3"
The length and number of items will change, I'm using a listview subitem
Lets say I have a variable: varEmail. It contains a variable equal to the user's email address, so it might contain a value likeNow, lets say I want to get just a portion of the email address, e.g. strip off the domain, like so:
View 5 RepliesI am trying to extract the first portion of a string up to the first SPACE or any non-numeric digit.I thought I could do it but the string may contain an alphabet in the front followed by varying digits of numerals, making it more complicated.Here are some examples of the string to be parsed and the expected results:
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I would have to use a series of instr statements but the code would be much cleaner using RegEx.
I have a combobox which is filled with items from a table like this: [Code] What Im trying to do is to when I choose one name from the dropdown list the firstname shall go to one textbox1 and lastname go to textbox2. One way doing this may be to use the ID column wich is the the Primary Key. And do a new search in a button with that ID which fills the textboxes. But how can I get just a portion of the selected string in the combobox to a string so I can do a search on it.
View 5 RepliesI have a sql table with the following fields
ID = PrimaryKey (nvarchar(50))
Name Surname
sample value of ID = RHO-1 How do i automatically increment the numeric portion when adding a new record to the database eg: RHO-2, RHO-3 and so on.
I want to display the image in panel control when mouse move on specific portion of panel control. Panel control already have a picture.
View 1 RepliesI have a problem when I select a portion of a string from a RichTextBox. For instance, if I have the following string: (23*6)+5 and I want to select (23*6) the "+" is also selected. I have search for a means to correct this problem, but I have not been able to find a solution.
View 4 RepliesSee subject of positing for question.
1) I recall seeing a really cool option in VB.NET using LINQ to match using "LIKE%'
2) I know regular expressions will work and I suspect that will result in the shortest code and probably won't be too hard to read for such a simple test.
Here's what I did.
Private Shared Function FileNameIsOk(ByVal fileName As String) As Boolean
For Position As Integer = 0 To fileName.Length - 1
Dim Character As String = fileName.Substring(Position, 1).ToUpper
Dim AsciiCharacter As Integer = Asc(Character)
Select Case True
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I have thios code that will load a php file (text file) into a sting via streamreader then its supposed to find and replace a portion of the text and write the changes back out to the file via streamwriter. I put my code together and after running it look at the file and it's unchanged. After looking closer it appears the problem is the find & replace operation I am doing on the string. Here is my code:
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I'm using the windows media player (wmp.dll) in vb.net 2008 and would like to know if it's possible to play a specific portion of the video. For example, I would like to start to play the video X minutes from the start and for Y amount of time.
View 1 RepliesI am getting a filename in a String and need to get the name from this. An example:
Dim file As String = "Hello.png"
'I need to get "Hello". One way of doing it is:
Dim name As String = file.Split(ChrW(46)).First()
The problem with this method is; What happens if the filename contains a .?
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I am trying to make a filename something like this:
dim Test as string = "name_" + now.toshortdatestring() + ".pdf"
The datestring is like MM/DD/YYYY, which is a particularly bad filename (who want slashes in their file names??)Is there a way to format the date string differently (ie MM-DD-YYYY)?What I was trying to do is tag the file with a date so I could tell when the last time that file was generated, and also keep multiple copies around for archive purposes. Maybe there is a better way and then I dont even need this differently formatted string?
Well lets say i Build a Program its called test.exe
Now if i Rename the Program to test2.exe how can i check with the Programm how my Program ist called now? Cause My.Application.Info.AssemblyName tells me only the AssemblyName not how the File is called at the moment.
How would I do that? Sample code is below that demonstrated that the file I opened contained the full path and file name.
I want to extract just the path and serialize that to the user.config file as a UserSetting value. Then next time the user opens the dialog box, it uses that saved path string to go immediately to the location previously used.
If openFileDialog1.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then
Properties.Settings.Default.persistConnectionType = openFileDialog1.FileName
Properties.Settings.Default.Save();
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I have a piece of code to debug. Because of unknown bugs it creates a dummy filename. I want to track all the pieces of code who fires that creates the dummy filename, so I can change the dummy file creation to a thrown exception. Since I the dummy filename is stored on a string, I plan to modify that string to contain an invalid NTFS filename, maybe containing invalid chars. Is there a reason to prefer some invalid chars over others? There are some predefined invalid NTFS filename destined to this purpose? (I may think of AUX , COM1 , LPT1 or PRN , but those names run the risk of start sending data to a port instead of throwing an exception).
View 1 RepliesPublic Sub saveExcelFile(ByVal FileName As String)Dim Excel As Object
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that is my code. everytime i open the saved file, it says that it has a different file type and asks me if i want to continue opening it and i click yes. the data inside the excel file is only the word "Success"
I have backup folder where I store the images while loading them.So I need to delete the image from the backup folder when deleted from the checked listbox.[code]...
View 2 RepliesI want to create a file with name:
CODE:
How do I make it so that if the filename in textbox13 already exists, it just adds a 1, 2, 3, etc... on the end so that the program doesn't lock up?
I am using printer routine in vb6 like that
printer.print "Hello World!"
the string directly printed through printer with filename "microsoft visual basic". I want to change this filename at runtime using the code.
I have a quite simple application that is having some random locks up. It's just a few text fields that the user fill it up, 3 sets of Radio buttons, one of them with flags to chose the language and click the PDF button. The application uses iTextsharp to load a PDf template, insert the text into it, depending on the language loads some extra text from a .xml file, and depending on the radio button removes the images from the PDF, closes the pdfstamper and uses [Code] to open the file with whatever PDF application the user have installed and closes itself.
Sounds simple, but after the application is installed in the machine (never in debugging mode) it randomly locks up the application. I tried re-publish the application commenting out the Start(filename) line and the thing stopped locking. And I double checked it, re-publish with the line again and it locked after just a few attempts. [Code]
How would I go about replacing a portion of text in a text file with a string?
View 1 RepliesI have a Listview on my form with different files. I can selet a file en open it with the proces start method. To open the file i use the OpenFileDialog method and select the filename. This work very good. With the code below.
My question is if there is a method to get the selected file without using the OpenFileDialog Box. So when i dubbelclick the selected file the proces will start with open the selected file. Something like:
proc.StartInfo.FileName = Me.SelectedCell.FileName
instead of proc.StartInfo.FileName = Me.OpenFileDialog1.FileName
PS) May be i can preduce the Filename using the OpenFileDialog method on the background.
Private Sub ListView1_MouseDoubleClick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles ListView1.MouseDoubleClick
If Me.OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog() = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then
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how do you transform an address like "file:///d:filename.ext" in "d:filename.ext"
without dirty string manipulation??
I have a strings with different number of characters (30-50). But each string contain only two "x"-characters in different positions. I need code that will extract only a portion of string between the "x".
View 5 RepliesDetails: I want to compare these above two table1 and 2 . The unmatched records should be save in a new table .
objectives
1 Should take input the table and fields we want to match each other.
2 Then after searching or reading the record from table and selected fields save the unmatch records in a new table
I got an app, which receives data via a R232 port, convert it to a string and on the other side I got a database, where the strings are saved. How can I find a way to compare the string with all strings in one database column and get back the another stringform the same row in this database. I never programmed a database
View 1 RepliesWe know that VB string start and end with double quotes " "
So we have to use "" if we want " in VB string.
I wonder if there is a regular expression pattern which will match VB string?.
How can I only add the decimal part of a number to another one?
example: if a number is A = 10.25
Then X = 30
Y = X + 0.25 (Here it added 0.25 which the decimal only NOT 10.25)
Another example, If X = 16.35, A = 102.001
Y = 16.351