String.Empty To Initialize A Variable?

Mar 31, 2009

I always initialize my variables with a value when declaring them.I was wondering if using String.Empty to initialize a variable is correct.'Is this OK ?

Dim strValue As String = String.Empty
'I used to do
Dim strValue2 As String = ""
On the same subject.

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When String Variable Was Empty String First One Returns 'nothing'

Oct 2, 2009

just found out that replace(string does not do the same as string.replace when my string variable was an empty str the first one returns "nothing" and the second returns an empty string (as expected).just sloppy coding anyhow, it was a function that was converted from classic asp and never rewritten properly. [code]

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Nothing Equals String.Empty, Null Does Not Equal String.Empty?

Jun 28, 2010

This must've have been asked before but I couldn't locate it. In a mixed code project (VB and C#) we were debugging some old Visual Basic code where a statement as follows could be found:

If Request.Params("xxx") <> "" Then
'do something

I considered this a bug as Request.Params could be null, in which case the statement would've become false which wasn't the idea. So I thought. I just found out, -- probably for the tenth time and I will keep forgetting -- that the following two statements are not equal, while Nothing in VB should be equal to null in C# (thought I):

if(String.Empty == null) // always false
If String.Empty = Nothing Then ' always true

Should I dismiss this as a typical Microsoft backward compatibility effort, or should I consider this a huge error in the VB.NET compiler? Does anybody know the Microsoftean opinion on this oddity?

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C# - Initialize An Array Variable That Has Already Been Declared ?

Sep 15, 2011

In C#, I can declare an array variable like this: object[] Parameters;

And initialize it like this: Parameters = new object[20];

In VB, declaring and initializing an array is easy:

Dim Parameters(19) As Object
Dim Parameters As Object(19) ' Alternative Syntax

How would I initialize an array variable that has already been declared in VB.NET? Parameters = New Object(19) doesn't work.

For example, how would I translate the following to vb.net?

int value = 20;
object[] Parameters;
if (value > 10)
{
Parameters = new Object[20];
}

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Arrays - If Not String.Empty Ignoring Empty String

Aug 11, 2010

I have a array of strings and I am looping through them, but the string might be empty so I am trying this:

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How To Use Session Variable Of One Page To Initialize Another Page's Global Variable

Mar 29, 2012

I have 2 web pages. In the first webpage I have a text box which takes an user input.The number of controls rendered in the second page is based on the user input in the first page.I am storing the user input from the first page as a session variable [code]Now, I wish to use this session variable in the next page for initializing a global variable and what I tried to do is Dim num_Invitees As Integer = CType (Session("NoOfControls ToGenerate"),Integer)But this gives me a NullReferenceException.Can someone please suggest me what exactly I should be doing in order to use the session variable to initialize a global variable and also why the session variable's value is null while using outside a function but works fine when used inside a function?

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Initialize List Of String?

Jul 6, 2010

Dim pix() As new List(Of String) = {"*.jpg", "*.avi", "*.mov"}
Dim pix As new List(Of String)() = {"*.jpg", "*.avi", "*.mov"}
Dim pix() As List(Of String) = {"*.jpg", "*.avi", "*.mov"}
Dim pix As List(Of String)() = {"*.jpg", "*.avi", "*.mov"}

Does it matter where the () are?

What difference does New make?

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Search A String Variable And Place The Match Into Another String Variable In Visual Basic?

Nov 18, 2009

I'm looking for a way to search a string variable for two words and copy the text in between them into another variable. This needs to be done as many times as the match occurs.

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Initialize Program String Array?

Jul 5, 2011

How create a array of objects (another class) in VB.NET and initialise it. Since I am not sure about the length of the array, it should be generic. I mean I should be able to add any number of objects to the array.

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VS 2005 : Initialize String Array In Parameter?

Mar 9, 2010

how should i initialize the string array in this procedure call

vb
Private Sub SetAddres(Optional ByVal Addrvalues(4) As String ) End Sub

how to initialize it with values and also with empty strings or null values

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Why STRING Does Not Have A Parameterless Constructor To Create An Empty String

Feb 4, 2012

I was trying to call a method using Reflection on a method that has a STRING parameter.However a STRING does not have a parameterless constructor.So instead of something like.>>

Option Strict On
Option Explicit On
Option Infer Off
Public Class Form1

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[2008] Finding The First Empty String In A String Array?

Mar 2, 2009

i have a string array that i want to output to a text file. the array size is 10000. i fill the array starting from 0 with some strings. at the end, i only want to show the array from index 256 to the last array that is not empty (for eg. if the array is filled with data from 0 to 2000, i only want the text file to show the data from 256 to 2000 and ignore the remaining strings). Is there any function to do this?t i use is shown below

Dim myArray(10000) as string
Dim strArray As New System.IO.StreamWriter("c:List.txt")
strArray.WriteLine("{0,10}{1,30}", "Index", "Symbol")

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Finding The First Empty String In String Array?

Mar 2, 2009

i have a string array that i want to output to a text file. the array size is 10000. i fill the array starting from 0 with some strings. at the end, i only want to show the array from index 256 to the last array that is not empty (for eg. if the array is filled with data from 0 to 2000, i only want the text file to show the data from 256 to 2000 and ignore the remaining strings). Is there any function to do this? i am using visual basic express 2008. The code that i use is shown below

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Testing String Value Of Nothing Is Equivalent To String.Empty

Feb 24, 2010

I have a nullable database field of type varchar. I am writing a unit test for a service method that retrieves the value of this field. The service method uses a custom DAL that returns a value of String.Empty if the database field is Null (this is desired behaviour).

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VS 2010 Merging An Integer Variable With A String Variable?

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Say I have something like this

Dim Level1 as Integer = 83
Dim Goal as String
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I have a webpage that has a Telerik RadComboBox on the page. One of the properties of this ComboBox is EmptyMessage, which fills the combobox with a message when an item is not selected. I am binding my combobox to a datasource at runtime and for some reason, it wipes this EmptyMessage away. Is there a way to keep my data items in tact and have the empty message there too?

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Appropriate Way To Set StringBuilder To An Empty String?

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I'm using VB's StringBuilder, and I was curious what is considered "best practice" for emptying the builder/setting it to a new string. Would it be something like this:[code]or is there a "Better" way?

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C# - The Benefits Of Using String.Empty?

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Possible Duplicate: In C#, should I use string.Empty or String.Empty or "" ? I just don't understand the benefits of using String.Empty over "". Aside it being strongly typed its longer.

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I am storing value in Double. If that value is 0.0, I dont want to display anything.

means,

If Value = 14.0, I want to display Value = 14.0
If value = 0.0, I want to display Value =

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Apr 13, 2010

Why does the first if statement evaluate to true? I know if I use "is" instead of "=" then it won't evaluate to true. If I replace String.Empty with "Foo" it doesn't evaluate to true. Both String.Empty and "Foo" have the same type of String, so why does one evaluate to true and the other doesn't?

//this evaluates to true
If Nothing = String.Empty Then

[CODE]...

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Should This Really Return An Empty String()?

Nov 26, 2010

I have an attribute class:

[code]...

With that said, shall the Private Property Attributes() As String() not return the values of DirectoryAttribute placed over the interfaces properties as well, since I specify True in the inheritance parameter of the Type.GetCustomAttributes method?

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Assign Empty String To Property With Value Of Nothing

Jan 5, 2011

In my EF4 EntityModel I have an entity named Users. Users have the common UserName and Password string fields. If I do something like this

Dim u as new USERS
U.UserName = String.Empty
Then U.UserName are still Nothing.

But if I Do Something like this
Dim u as new USERS
u.UserName = "A"
u.UserName = String.Empty
Then U.UserName take String.Empty as value without problem.

The reason is the way that EF4 generate the UserName Property
Public Property UserName() As Global.System.String
Get
Return _UserName
End Get
[Code] .....

I do not want to make two assignations every time I want to set string.empty to a property with a nothing value, and I do not want to remember that I must do it in this way everytime, because I'm pretty sure that I will forget it and then I will introduce bugs in the code. I just want to assign the empty.string value to a property and the property take "" as value.

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How can i check if a string collection is empty? I tried

VB.NET
My.Settings.IPBank.Count = 0
But it said

Quote:

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

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Jan 31, 2011

How can I create an empty string that is a certain length?

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String Empty Error Validation

Apr 26, 2011

To make it clear this IS homework, however this is also a method of research. i only ask when i get in binds i can not find answers to in other forums . There are so many i could spend more time[code]...

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Apr 4, 2009

I am trying to insert a string variable inside of two strings, and make a combined string. Public Sub Page_Load() Dim Id As String Id = Trim (Request.QueryString("Id")) End Sub Dim mp3text as string url... & Id & ".mp3" My goal is to make the mp3text variable have a string that is: url...(If Id is 7) It is for some reason not connecting up correctly. I checked what string it is outputting and this is what it is giving: url...It is missing the Id content.

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.net - GetPrivateProfileString() Returns Empty String Despite Having A Default?

Jul 9, 2010

Private Declare Function GetPrivateProfileString Lib "kernel32" Alias _

"GetPrivateProfileStringA" (ByVal lpApplicationName As String, _
ByVal lpKeyName As String, _
ByVal lpDefault As String, _
ByVal lpReturnedString As String, _
ByVal nSize As Integer, ByVal lpFileName As String) As Integer
Dim value As String = ""
Dim length As Integer
Dim IniFileName As String

GetPrivateProfileString("Config", "UserName", "None", value, length, IniFileName)

but value contains an empty string I confes to being a VB n00b, less than a week, in fact, but I can't see what's wrong there. The file exists, it contains a section called "Config" which has an entry called "UserName" with a value - but even if not, wouldn't value take the default?

Edit: It's not returning an empty string - it's returning whatever I initialize value to before calling GetPrivateProfileString().

Which is to say that if I Dim value As String = "xxx" then it stil contains "xxx" after the call and not the default value.

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.Net: Empty String Is Not Clear Space Character?

Apr 7, 2009

I've always use String.IsNullOrEmpty to check for a empty string. It recently come to my attention that a " " count as not a empty string. For example,

Dim test As String = " "
If String.IsNullOrEmpty(test) Then
MessageBox.Show("Empty String")

[Code]....

It will show "Not Empty String". So how do we check for " " or " " in a string?

edit: I wasn't aware that " " count as character.

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