finding out how to match a string. I am trying to find the match for the string "date". However it could exist in any of the following forms, "SAMPLE_DATE", "Date", "Sample date" "today's date" "Sampledate".
Is there any regular expression for this problem?
i have a string named Workers that had multiple lines of text. I need to search those lines for the term "BackGroundWorker1" if it is found then do something if not do something.
View 3 RepliesSo there's this accounting package at my client that spits out text-based reports with invalid dates, like February 31st or September 31st.The reports are formatted with spaces and mono-spaced fonts. The data that gets parsed out are fed into a more formal local SSRS report, and that's about all you need to know.
What I am interested in fixing is the situation where a date is invalid and can't be converted into a DateTime struct. The date format from the report is "MMM-dd-yy" (e.g. "Feb-30-10"). The date strings need to be fixed before being shown in the formal report. I've seen this done two ways in my time as a developer, and I want to come up with a cleverer way of doing it (if there isn't a built-in way I don't know about).The first bad method (I can't believe I'm even showing you!):
Dim month As Integer = <Parse out the month from the bad date string>
Dim day As Integer = <Parse out the day from the bad date string>
Dim year As Integer = <Parse out the year from the bad date string>
Dim validDate As DateTime
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i'm trying to get my program to look up a string and find a match in an access database in column "PhoneNumber" and return the value from column "FullName" on the same row to a different string
so it would go like this: (i really don't know much about accessing databases)
Dim PhoneNumber As String
Dim FullName As String
PhoneNumber = TextBox1.Text
FullName =
how I can ensure that conversion of a date to a string and a string to a date will give me the same date format.
For example:
Code:
Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim d As Date = Date.Now
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I'm actually only interested in the date part as the label text shows so f is more than I want.But also, the day and month are reversed.
Private Sub btnRPSearch_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnRPSearch.Click
Dim currentRecord As String = RprAuthNumTextBox.Text
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Using regular expressions, how can we find all paragraphs of match type A NOT B E.g Find all paragraphs which has the word "pattern" but doesn't have the word "regular".So in the following text, 2 & 3 should be selected while 1 should be omitted:
1. With regular expressions you can describe almost any text pattern
2. including a pattern that matches two words near each other.
3. This pattern is relatively simple, consisting of three parts.
I need a way to tell me if a certain word already exists in a multi-lined textbox. Right now I have a multi-lined textbox with some names inside it. After each name I add a newline so all the names are on their own line inside the textbox.I use this code to add names to the textbox, Text Box1. AppendText(ComboBox1.Text + vbCrLf)Then I have been checking if the name exists by doing it this way,[code]The problem is that Ted and Teddy return the same when searching for Ted even if Ted isnt in the textbox at all, I have googled for the last few days and even tried RegularExpressions and still the same results. I think this might be a simple true or false check but I may be wrong... or even a loop or something line by line.
View 5 RepliesI have to match string like "DAY1","DAY2","DAY3"....."DAY31" with regex in vb.net. I tried something like this - ^?DAY(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])$ but it did not work.
The pattern should have succesfull match if the source string is either DAY1 or DAY2 or DAY3 to DAY31 like so.
I am building a module that uses gridview and formview to display data in a grid, using VB as my backend, developing in VS2008. When I try to implement the module, I receive an error about matching parameters.From what I have read, this error kicks back due to a discrepancy between the VB and the SQL stored procedures.My query should be totally okay, but I don't know where exactly I should be looking in my visual basic...I have five separate VB files; the view.vb file, edit.vb, settings.vb, the controller.vb, and info.vb.I had thought that my best bet might be the controller file, but I can seem to find anything that might be missing.
Error report to follow:
Parameter count does not match Parameter Value count. ---> System.ArgumentException: Parameter count does not match Parameter Value count. at
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Title pretty much says it all. How do I format the date of a dateandtimepicker to insert it into the SQL date datatype?
View 20 RepliesIs it possible to use regex with Range.Find.Text or set the Word.Range according to a regex in word automation? I just want to find strings that match a regular expression an manipulate them.
View 2 RepliesThe database field has text inside the field and I want to match it with another string...How do I convert a field to a string?
View 7 RepliesIm trying to work out what the best way to match 2 strings together, but with a difference.
String1 = "dog cat bird chair book table"
String2 = "the dog chassed the cat around the chair"
No I know I can break string1 up by space character and check if each word appears in string 2, I would prefer to not have to do that.If there some sought of regex that would take a group of words and retrun how many of them matched ?
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 :
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I think I have explained my problem properly..
I'm currently trying to match a word in a string - to a word in an 1 dimensional arrray.
So it does this.
1.Goes into array, gets first word.
2.Looks for that word in the string.
3.If can't find it, go to next word in array.
4.And so forth until it finds it or runs out of words in array.
Problem is the string can be upto 2000 characters long. And the Array with the possible matches can have upto 8000 entries.
So when it runs, if the word begins with 'A' it finds it dead quick as the 'A's are at the top of the array, ordered alphabetically. This is great.
But if the word starts with 'Z' then it takes 4-5 seconds before finding it.
I'm basically using InStr to find the word in the string.
how to check if the user input has a match in my given string
Dim a as string
a = "abc"
if the user input in the textbox "erty" the message box will be shown string not found. if the user input 123abc the message box will be string found
I am making a question and answer game, and I would like to be able to give the user some slack in the answers if they were to misspell a word by a letter or two, like if the answers was Jumps and they type Jump if you did a comparison of them like If string1 = sring2 then do whatever, but obliviously those to string dont match, so it would return false, even though it is the right answer, I came up with this routine to compare two words and if the percentage of the letters are higher then 82 % right it will give you credit for your answer.
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I need a way to compare multiple strings to a test string and return the string that closely resembles it:
TEST STRING: THE BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE RED COW
CHOICE A : THE RED COW JUMPED OVER THE GREEN CHICKEN
CHOICE B : THE RED COW JUMPED OVER THE RED COW
CHOICE C : THE RED FOX JUMPED OVER THE BROWN COW
(If I did this correctly) The closest string to the "TEST STRING" should be "CHOICE C". What is the easiest way to do this?
I plan on implementing this into multiple languages including VB.net, Lua, and JavaScript. At this point, pseudo code is acceptable.
I am not a regex guy, so I need a little help, just cant get my head around this...
I am writing registration page and using asp.net validators. I need a regex validator to match a special character anywhere within a word, so it will satisfy requirement which says that "ID must have at least one special character." Allowed characters are[code]...
Once again, I am a junior, and having problems with wrapping my head around this stuff at this moment..
I want to match a string for example "yes" but where it is not in brackets so that the following would be matched: yes (bla yes bla) bla yes
View 7 RepliesI want a regular expression for the following issue:I want to match a string that contains A,B,C,D,E and F. string length should be 0 to 6. and not character should be repeat in the string.Example: ABCDEF, ACDEFB, EFBCDA, etc. but not ABBCDES/W Engineer
View 3 RepliesI have a simple string : s:10:"char1";s:2:"13";i:1;a:8:, i'd like to match that 13 from inside " ", in PHP i would do something like :
/s:dd?:"char1";s:dd?:"(.*?)";i:dd?;a:dd?:/i but i'm not good in vb's match methods,so please give me full example how i can match what i need ( it is possible to be multiple matches (2) ).
I'm trying to replace a string with another but the problem is that the string is matching some other string partially.
For e.g. -
Dim x as String = "I am Soham"
x = x.Replace("am","xx")
After this replace I would only like the word am to replaced with xx but because my name also contains am its also getting replaced.
Whether I am using VB 2008 Express or VS 2010 Beta 1 Visual Basic, I get the same error: "Debugging information for 'EXCEL.EXE" cannot be found or does not match. Cannot find or open the PDB file" I have filled in the Debug Tab information: Start external program: C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice12Excel.exe
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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.
View 3 Repliesnew with Linq and very excited with this feature. However, I want to see if I can do the following with LINQ:
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Notice that I have a break in my foreach loop, meaning that I just need to reset the first match row's column value to empty string.
How can i filter a DataView to a string nearest match? Almost like a FullTextSearch, is this posible using a DataView?
View 1 RepliesWell my question is simple, I want to match a string with following attributesNo white spaceMust start with a letterMust not contain any other special characters other than nderscore
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