String Searching - Find Records That Does Not Have This List Of Strings In
Jun 12, 2011
I have a problem finding strings that do not exist in a column in a database. I am going to use linq but its more the 'way' of doing I am concerned with.
I have strings like;
MEAL
GPST
EXLEG
EXLG ...etc
I need to find records that does not have this list of strings in, so for example DBML BUT sometimes I can have the string MEALDBML, or more concatenated. So this is a known string of MEAL and unknown string of DBML. I would then want to see that record. I do not know the unknown strings up front, so its a case of feeding in the strings I know are ok, and finding one that are outside that list. I was also thinking of regex?
In general Combo Box looks for the strings in the list that Start with the text that typed in the textbox portion of combo box.
I want a feature in combo box which do not just look in the starting of the strings, insted they shold search the maching strings within any part of records i.e. If User types 'Ja' in textbox portion, the the list should show following maches with highlighting the mached records
Micle Jackson Sandeep B Jakhotya Javid Akhatar Suresh Jadhav Jackie Chan like this.
Similar control is already used by Yahoo Web Site for Search Assistance in its Web Search Combo box. Here if we type say 'bush', it will populate following records
george w bush jenna bush bush shoe bush game hot dog bush
I want the same with Visual Basic for Windows Form Applications.
I have users check off lab facilities in a UI. I want to use linq to fetch corresponding records for all of the labs that they have checked off. Basically,
Dim myRecs = (From l As EpiData In myDataContext.EPIDatas Where l.facility= _ one of the checked labs
So basically, I need to write a linq query where the "strings" to match are determined at runtime. Is there any way to do this easily? I know that there is a library out there called dynamic LINQ, but (1) it's in C# and I'm writing in VB (2) I'm really just looking for a single, simple solution for this single case.
I have a list of strings. For each string in that list, I want to prepend another string. I wrote a method to do it, but I was wondering if there was something already in .NET I could use to do this. It seems like something that could be built in, but I was not able to find anything.
Here is the method I wrote:
Private Function PrependToAllInList(ByRef inputList As List(Of String), ByRef prependString As String) As List(Of String) Dim returnList As List(Of String) = New List(Of String) For Each inputString As String In inputList returnList.Add(String.Format("{0}{1}", prependString, inputString))
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It works, but I would rather use built in functions whenever possible.
I have a specialized string dictionary of (string, string) (_RulesAndTheirDescriptions) that contains the name (key) and description (value) of methods in a given class. I currently do the following query to search for a match on the key or value and then bind that to a grid.
I have a string in which if the string "<error" appears (as part of a larger string which would look something like this
" <error code="200">Current security level not high enough.</error>"), it finds what the code equals (in this case 200) and the message which appears between the pointy brackets (in this case "Current security level not high enough.").[code]...
I am trying to take a value from an html file. I know what code will be around the value. So I want to split the html doc with these values so I can get the value between them.
For example:
<h4>Availability</h4> <p> <b>Availability</b>: VALUE IS HERE <br /> </p>
I have a string, and I want to search it for multiple strings, which I basically want to use for searching for urls in an HTML file that's been loaded into a string.
so get the value of everything between
href="http:// and the next " and return it (I want to check each one separately and do different things with them, so maybe add them to an array that I can loop through?)
preferably simple short code than highly functioning code
It seems simple enough, but apparently I cant figure it out. Theres more to my actual problem, but once I figure out this concept then I can do the rest. I want to search a list for a given string, and if it matches, then print it out. If it doesnt match, then it moves to the next item in the list. If if doesnt find any matches, it says "no matches found".
Okay so i have a very large list of string (500 000 strings) i want to check the number of duplicate strings and maybe even isolate the duplicate strings if i can.
i cant find a fast method to do so :S
i tried using a string array (slower than list) takes ~15mins
i tried using list with the code below takes ~10 mins
Say I have a List(Of Tag) with Tag being an object. One member of Tag, Tag.Description, is a string, and I want to make a comma-separated concatenation of the Description members.Is there an easier way to do this than to read the Description members into a List(Of String) and then use the Join function?
I have two List(Of String).Both Lists contain duplicate strings. I want to pick out all the strings which are contained in both the Lists. For example:
I have 5 strings of varying length and I want to see if any of them have a 1-character substring that is not in any of the others. If it does then I want the value of the original substring to become the value of the string holding it. The names of the five strings are T1, T2, T3, T4, and T5. [Code]
I have an List(of String), i need to find the index of a particular string in that list. I have searched msdn , but i am confused over the predicate methods. I have never used predicates. This i what i have tried
vb 'on button1 click Dim Heads As List(Of String) = Me.GetSelectedNodes() Dim tmp As Integer
Heres what im trying to do. I want to search a text file for a word (say) then write only the lines containing that word into a textbox.
Heres what i got..
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim Reader As New StreamReader("C:Program FilesActivisionCall of Duty 2main estgames_mp.log")
I've got some code that creates a list of AD groups that the user is a member of, with the intention of saying 'if user is a member of GroupX then allow admin access, if not allow basic access'.
I was using a StringCollection to store this list of Groups, and intended to use the Contains method to test for membership of my admin group, but the problem is that this method only compares the full string - but my AD groups values are formatted as cn=GroupX, etc....
I want to be easily able to determine if a particular substring (i.e. 'GroupX') appears in the list of groups. I could always iterate through the groups check each for a substring representing my AD group name, but I'm more interested in finding out if there is a 'better' way.
Clearly there are a number of repositories for the list of Groups, and it appears that Generics (List(Of String)) are more commonly preferred (which I may well implement anyway) but there is no in-built means of checking for a substring using this method either.
I've settled on using a List(Of), and I've borrowed from Dan's code to iterate through the list.
Ok I have a search Button that will search through a student table and produce the grades of all the stdents in a class room when I enter the class room number into a textbox(txtclass.Text). The results will be displayed in a DataGridView and also I have the average grade of the class displayed in another textbox(marks.Text).
My program runs fine but I would like to add more code so that If I enter a wrong classrom number into the search textbox and Search for it then I would like a messagebox to pop up and say that the classrom you have entered does not exist. .I have tried different if statements but none has worked for me so far.
I am working on arrays and I am currently having trouble with searching and finding arrays. In this example, the user should be able to enter a Name, and it will output that person's stats.
Here is the text file (note, I should be able to go to this text file, add a few more names and the code should still work, which is why I am using loops,arrays,text files instead of if and else statements),
Kobe,29,6,4 Allen Iverson,28,7,4 Jason Kidd,12,10,9
So if the user enters Jason Kidd in the text box, this will display in another text box:
Jason Kidd averaged 12 points, 10 assist, and 9 rebounds.
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All right now is the searching part. I really do know how to search for what the user entered and display the statement in a text box. I kind of have an idea of how to just get the name, but for it to get the name and then all the data for that name puzzles me even more.-I tried using .contain, indexof and few others.
I know to display the information in the text box will be something like:
I have been looking for examples to find the string between two strings. This top one works fine;
Public Sub ReadData(ByRef keywordStart As String, ByRef keywordEnd As String, ByVal filename As String) Using reader = New StreamReader(filename)
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Now the first one is fine - Ext_Volume is result of the string between the strings <Volume> and </Volume>. <Volume> and </Volume> are unique so this is straight forward.
However the second one - "^FDExp:" is unique, but "^FS" is not unique. There are occurances of "^FS" before and after "^FDExp:".
How do I get the string to search AFTER the occurrence, not before etc?
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I've tried a few different methods I could find in order to connect my VB .NET program to a book store's database. While I've been able to connect to it and display the contents of its tables in a DataGrid, I need to be able to search the tables and display specific records, depending on the contents of appropriate the adjacent text boxes.[code]This is a code I've used for a very similar process, just really aims to search a different field in the table. If this is easier to adapt into a code that allows searching and producing specific records in a database, please use this one.
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I need to search a keyword put in a text box. In my case, I want to search records by the month name. I would want a command button that displays results according to the keyword typed in a text box. Now I tried two methods, one with a text box, one with a query. Both Do search, but the fields return empty.
Heres the code for my form where the datagrid is: vb.net Public Class Form6 Private Sub Pay_CalculatorBindingNavigatorSaveItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Pay_CalculatorBindingNavigatorSaveItem.Click Me.Validate() [Code] .....
I want to display summaries of data entered, by criteria, like by department, by month, by year etc. How do I do that one? I have vb 2010 express.
