I need some help to create a regular expression. It is a little like a search and replace, I want to replace any string that contains parentheses with a fixed editorial comment in brackets."The Prime Minister (that idiot from Scotland) made a speech today" with "The Prime Minister [edited for abuse] made a speech today".
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Just have a list of words, such as:
gram (g)
kilogram (kg)
pound (lb)
just wondering how I would get the words within the brackets for example get the "g" in "gram (g)" and dim it as a new string. Possibly using regex?
I have some existing code that looks something like this:
[tag:cb cbid="12345" cbwidth="200" cbclassname="calloutbox" cbposition="left"] Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
[tag:cb cbid="123" cbwidth="200" cbclass="calloutbox2" cbposition="left"] Suspendisse eleifend enim a magna pretium porttitor.
I need to write a VB .Net global function that will match these [tag:cb] and take the optional parameters and rewrite the string with Html tags.
<div id="12345" width="200" class="calloutbox" position="left">content (based on id)</div>
I have an string like this:
Dim value as string = "hy the number is (30.01)"
How i can get this number 30.01 into another variable?
How do i remove the brackets from a string that looks like this:
[anything inside here]??
I would like to do it in one line of code
Ok - this may seem like a strange request ... but basically I need a regular expression to return a string in between two brackets as described below... String:
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I have developed a VB.NET (VS2005) application that performs a dependency check of VBA code to see where a selected procedure was called from. I want to add the facility to launch an application and to load the selected procedure into it's edit window. I can launch the application and, using sendkeys, I can open the application window, and the final thing is to use SendKeys to insert the function name. Now, here is the problem. Where the finction name contains parentheses, they get stripped out by SendKeys. For example where a function name is of the form "Scriptxyz(1)", then sendkeys sends the value "Scriptxyz1" to the application. I have the script name defined as a string and am using SendKeys(strName). How can I stop SendKeys from stripping out the parentheses?
View 2 Repliesiam making a dictionary in mediawiki and for this purpose i designed a bot in vb.net when i search in a string which contains [[ code dosne detect the [[ in a string a seems it bypass the [[ code is below
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this code search for vbNewLine & "[[ in the string and then add myid to listbox but it search "اسم نکرہ" also (without [[) so it mix up. where iam making mistake?
i want to create a listbox in which a user introduces a name (Ex Item1) I also want to user to insert a comment in the shape of a string ( Ex. Item1 was added yesterday) and link it somehow to his Item1.
Once the program starts the user should be able to insert an item in the listbox with a comment; and once he selects the item i want a MsgBox appearing with the comment of the specific Item, that he also inserted.
Think something like a book library using a listbox.You go and browse books in a listbox and once you click on them they display on the right the cover of the book, the authors, date, ratings etc.I just need to know how to link a ListBoxItem to do something, and i want the Library administrator to do it in runtime.The MsgBox example should do it for me.
The file reads in parameters and two of the parameters used to be in Date Format YYYYMMDD but will now permanently be in format YYYY-MM-DD. This change, I believe, is stopping the import of the file from working. I would like to replace the new format YYYY-MM-DD back to YYYYMMDD in the code. If possible I'd also like to see some output so I know that the old format has been replaced with the new format. The code is below. I added the two rows with .replace code in green in expecting that to be enough but it is still not working.
Public
Sub Main()
Dim R1, O1, P1, C1, strDateFrom, strDateTo, strRunDate
As
String
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I have a long string like this
dim LongString as String = "123abc456def789ghi"
And I want to split it into a string array. Each element of the array should be in 3 characters length[code]...
I am using vb.net to parse my own basic scripting language, sample below. I am a bit stuck trying to deal with the 2 separate types of nested brackets.
Assuming name = Sam
Assuming timeFormat = hh:mm:ss
Assuming time() is a function that takes a format string but
has a default value and returns a string.
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I could in theory change the syntax of the script completely but I would rather not. It is designed like this to enable strings without quotes because it will be included in an XML file and quotes in that context were getting messy and very prone to errors and readability issues. If this fails I could redesign using something other than quotes to mark out strings but I would rather use this method.
Preferably, unless there is some other way I am not aware of, I would like to do this using regex. I am aware that the standard regex is not really capable of this but I believe this is possible using MatchEvaluators in vb.net and some form of recursion based replacing. However I have not been able to get my head around it for the last day or so, possibly because it is hugely difficult, possibly because I am ill, or possibly because I am plain thick. I do have the following regex for parts of it.
Detecting the parentheses: (w*?)((.*?))(?=[^(+)]*((|$))
Detecting the square brackets: [[(.*?)]](?=[^[+]]*([[|$))
I am having some problems declaring a fixed lenght string in vb.net. I am studying code for using webcam in vb.net, although the code is from vb6 but I am told it works in dot net. Everyting else seems to be working except this line[url]...
View 3 RepliesI have files that are one long line of text but are made up of individual segments. I have managed to parse the segments into a string array but now need to parse each segment into its individual fields, based upon a field structure defined by the first 2 characters of the segment.For example:
CA12345ABC999999XXPPPPPPPP55
CA segment (CA is first 2 characters of segment) has fields defined as:
Field Name,Start,Length
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How do i Declare a string like this:
Dim strBuff As String * 256
I am using a com object to maniplate data inside an external program using VB.NET. One of the methods this com object provides requires 1 string parameter.The external program, however, requires a sting of a specified length, regardless of the number of characters used. The string to be passed to the function (length 36) is a combination of the below key fields.[code]I have tried the VB6 compatability's VBFixedString type but the com object's method throws an exception due to a type mismatch.If I convert the VBFixedString back to a .NET string before passing it to the method, the first null character is again interpreted as a string terminator and the rest of my string is chopped.
View 1 RepliesI need to format a string in a fixed number of characters.
For example, if someone type TWO
It has too save in the variable
000TWO
if type THREE
0THREE
Always 6 characters and fill the rest with zeros on the left.
I am trying to format a string of arbitrary length into a fixed width field for display.
Let's use a width of 20 as an example, and call the string to be formatted s. I'm adding the formatted string to a StringBuilder named b.
Dim b As New System.Text.StringBuilder()
Dim s as New String
If the string I want to display is shorter than 20 characters, I can do this:
b.Append(s.PadRight(20))
or
b.AppendFormat("{0,-20}", s)
So far, so good. But, if the string is longer than 20 characters, I want the string to be truncated to 20 characters as it is appended. The code above appends the entire string.
I tried this:
b.Append(s.Substring(0,20).PadRight(20))
But, this fires an exception if the string was shorter than 20 characters.
So, I ended up with:
b.Append(s.PadRight(20).Substring(0,20))
This seems to do the job. The PadRight prevents the exception by making sure thet string has 20 characters before the Substring is performed.
I was wondering if there is an alternate method that would look more elegant and avoid padding the string just so prevent the substring from causing an exception. Have I missed a feature of String.Format that can accomplish this in one step?
Edited to add solution:
I ended up with the following code:
Module Extensions
<Extension()> _
Function AppendFixed(ByVal b As StringBuilder, ByVal s As String, ByVal width As Integer) As StringBuilder
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This uses an extension method to clean up the syntax, as suggested by Joel and Merlyn, and uses the StringBulider Append overloads to avoid creating new strings that will have to be garbage collected, as suggested by supercat.
In my application, a string generated its length can varying from 1 to 100 (not using random number algo). But I want if length is less than 7 than need to add integers 1,2,3.. untill its size reach to 7. I implements it using while loop as :
If generatedUserName.Length < 7 Then
Dim count As Int32 = 0
While generatedUserName.Length < 7
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Is any other better way such as enbuild function Tostring() with some parameter?
Got a dll from a supplier that I need to call. His declaration is Declaration with Microsoft Visual Basic: [code]Now, the Sting * 20 is clearly not VB.NET, and sure enough it crashes when run - "Attempt to read or write in protected memory" and that leads me to think that there is something with that string definition - or possibly the I_Ref definition which hasn't been defined as fixed length.I've tried <VBFixedString(20)> when defining O_Err, but I have a feeling that it might not be enough when the function declaration is like that (not specifically fixed length). I cannot figure out how to specify this correctly.As a small hmmmm, the above is pasted directly from the suppliers documentation, but that't will never work, as there is a "," missing after I_Range as long... Clearly not something he has pasted from a working program.
View 9 Repliesjust say I have a string as follows:
This is a long long lojngoi sudofi usdfh ksjdhfjk sdhfgkj shgh sdfhg sdfg sdfgdsfg ... I want to specify a maximum width (eg 180) for my string and get the height returned... the picture below explains in more detail:
Suppose i have two strings which is given below.
CODE:
Where ever i find , it should be replaced one blank line and " replace by "
When i migrated the data from MYSQL to SQL Server 2005, i found few problem in one of the column. In MYSQL indicates as new line and " indicates as ".
Problem: Your task is to take input from the user in string and give the following options to the user in a menu.
1- Find a String
2- Create sub-string
3- Erase a portion of a sting
4- Replace a word in the string
5- Count number of words and characters in the string without spaces.
6- Capitalize first character of each new sentence and convert the rest
of the characters to lower case.
7- Sort all the words in alphabetical order. (Use Bubble sort algorithm to perform sorting).
To perform all the above mentioned tasks you can only use pointers. Create a function to perform every task.
I wanted command prompt to change the dir to a specified path[code...
Whne cmd starts, and enters this text, it leaves out the ( and the ) in (x86)
I am trying to write a GUI for a BAT file i made for my company. This snippet of a file i have written works fine in BAT code but not VB 2010 because the parentheses is messing it up! How can i use parentheses in a text line? Here is what i am trying:
System.Console.Write("netsh interface ip set address name="Local Area Connection" static 192.168.0.11 255.255.255.0")
I have tried using ' ' but that will not work. I have to have " " around Local Area Connection in order for it to work.
I'm trying to learn LINQ to SQL. I've run into something I just don't get.Here's the LINQ program:[code]What I don't get is why there is a minus sign in the SQL before the math in the parentheses.I didn't specify that in the LINQ query.
View 6 Repliesi am making a l337 speak generator..Lets say I input bob12321 (although i can input anything)I would like to make the program replace the "b" with either [code]How would i do that... I tried string.replace - but it says character A cannot be turned into long (on a seperate word)[code]
View 6 RepliesI have a non standard text file, ie its not delimted etc, its pretty much free flowing. What I want to do is to search for a specifc string eg. "xyz123" and then replace it with what a user types into a text box, lets call the text box and its contents "txtreplace".
I am trying to replicate a find and replace function essentially, but will need to tailor it later on down the line, but this will be a starting point.
I am using System.IO.FIle.ReadAllText() to get the contents of some template files that I created for email content. Then I want to do a Replace on certain tokens within the files so I can add dynamic content to the template.Here is the code I have, it seems to me like it should work just fine...
Dim confirmUrl As String = Request.ApplicationPath & "?v=" & reg.AuthKey
Dim text As String = IO.File.ReadAllText( _
ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("sign_up_confirm_email_text").Replace("~", _
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For some reason I cannot get the %%LINK%% and %%NAME%% Replace() calls to work properly. I checked to see if it was encoding-related, so I made each file UTF-8. And also used the forced encoding overload of ReadAllText(String, Encoding) and still no dice.
Is there a way to define an array inside of the sub call parentheses?
Private Sub sub_name(byval sString, arrString)
sub_name("Some Text", array.{"","",""})
What I've been doing is passing a string and using a split on it to break it into an array in the Sub/Function, but I was wondering if there was a way to make the array inside the parentheses. I've looked through Google, but I'm guessing I'm not asking the right questions or it's not possible.
