Split String For Firstname And Lastname?
Jul 27, 2010i have a string that comes in say "Joesph Van Andrews". I want to split it in such a way that firstname is "Joseph" and lastname is "Van Andrews"how can i do that in vb.net?
View 2 Repliesi have a string that comes in say "Joesph Van Andrews". I want to split it in such a way that firstname is "Joseph" and lastname is "Van Andrews"how can i do that in vb.net?
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to convert a string that contains someones name as "Last, First" to "First Last".
This is how I am doing it now:
name = name.Trim
name = name.Substring(name.IndexOf(",") + 1, name.Length) & " " & name.Substring(0,
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new enough at something like this, I know my button is all over the place but in short: Listbox contains "Lastname, Firstname" and I wan to flip it to "Firstname Lastname" Using a string.split I can find the comma and remove it but getting sub strings for the rest of the item and exchanging them is beyond me. here's what I have:
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I am a newbe and am not using wpf. On a windows form application, how can I get the listbox to display lastname and firstname to a sql database.
View 1 Repliesim trying to add a new record in a small access database only firstName and lastname i want to chek if that record exist msgbox say record exist if not add a record here what i have done
Dim sqlcmd As String
Dim cmd As OleDbCommand
Dim dr1 As OleDbDataReader
Dim user As Integer
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How should I code to display the name in the listbox following this format: Lastname comma space firstname (foe example: Depp, Jonny), when the user input a fullname from a textbox( Jonny Depp)?
View 2 RepliesI need to make a form like this [URL] [URL]
For Firstname and Lastname: When you click to random Button it will auto pick random Firstname from Firstname.txt and random Lastname from Lastname.txt
For Username: when you click to random Username Button it will auto generate Username from firstname, lastname, string, number like this
Username = firstname+number+lastname+string
For Password:
Password = random string + random number
I am trying to split a long string based on an array of words. For Example:Words: trying, long, array Sentence: "I am trying to split a long string based on an array of words."Resulting string array:Multiple instances of the same word is likely, so having two instances of trying cause a split, or of array, will probably happen.
View 5 Repliesmy code is :
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The error is Value of type '1-dimensional array of string' cannot be converted to 'String'.
I'm trying to split a Yahoo historical stock price csv file, downloaded into a string, by what looks like a space character. I want a new row for each split. The split function works for other characters I see in the string. I suspect the characters may be a non breaking space character but I've been unable to split on them. This is the test csv file that is downloaded into the string: [URL] I'm trying to split the string like this:
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These is the content of my txt file which is saved in D drive in my pc abc,1,2,3..I tried the flowing but it didn't work:[code]I am getting error on this line.. data = line.Split(","c)...it says this line isn't in use anymore or something and that I rather use LineInput but thats asks for filenumber and i don't know what that is. I am sorry but I am a complete beginner. what else can I try? [code]ok that error is gone now but now if I want to add these values to a list box..how can i do that?
View 1 RepliesIs there a way to use the string.split command to get a section of a string without using an intermediary array?for example, if my string is "1 2" and I want to get the "2" part using string.split(" "), is there a way to avoid creating a new array, and just get the bit of the string I want in a single line?
View 4 RepliesAfter having some trouble in my own code using String.Split and the Split(String(), Int32, StringSplitOptions) overload, I decided to look to the MSDN.I copied the entire VB.NET code example from this link: url...I placed it in a new class, and received the following errors (same errors as my own code example):[code]Why can my code not recogognize the string() parameter overloads to String.Split? Remember, i took the code from the MSDN link above, copied and pasted and it still did not work.I am counting on using the string() instead of char() overloads shown here: url...
View 15 RepliesBackground: I have a winForm app that registers a user in the database based on the information provided, auto-generates a random password and username, and e-mails the user a link to take an application based on the marketing company selected. Problem: hen the user clicks "Send Invitation" with data inputted iton all fields except the bundles listbox in debug, the NullReferenceException Error is thrown highlighting the line: Dim MCShort As String = Trim(splitMC(0))How do I fix this issue Here's a screenshot of the web app: Here's the code of the Send_Button_Click method off default.asx.vb:
Private Sub Send_Button_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Send_Button.Click
'TODO Add code to validate that all selections that are reaquired are met.
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I have some code that splits a session into strings by a -
My session looks something like this 123-456-789- and I split it like this
Dim MyString As String() = Session("MySession").Split("-"C)
And i've got a some code like this
Dim x as Integer
For x = 0 to MyString - 1
Response.write("Ref: " & MyString(x) & "<br>")
Next
This writes the code like this
Ref: 123
Ref: 456
Ref: 789
Ref:
So it's adding an extra Ref where it shouldn't be because there is no data after the last -
Is there a way to stop this adding in the extra one?
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 have a string which I've split into an array. I need to change a value in the array and join the string together. However I cannot set the value of the array variable as it's read only.Is there any way to do this without creating another array?
Dim LineOfText As StringDim aryTextFile As String[code...]
I want to take a string from a text box and split each letter of the string into an array. Then, I want to take the first item in the array(the first letter of the string)and capitalize it. Once I've done all that, I want to combine the array and convert it back to the original string it was, except I want the first letter to be capitalized(I've already placed this into a variable.)
Here's what I've come up with so far:
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how to combine the array back to a string except I replace the first letter of the original string with the "firstLetter" variable I created.
I'm trying to evaluate a lastname and then set a value. so first two characters of last name btw M-MI would be M1, MJ-MZ would be M2
View 1 RepliesI want split a gridview row on an html tag. How can i do this preferably in C#??.row.cells[1].Text.Split("htmltag")
View 7 Repliesi was unable to implement a multiline label or a transparent multiline textbox. So ive come up with the long way.I have paragraph of words (approx 100) that changes on a click. i want to split the paragraph into blocks of 20 and create 5 strings.
' Split string based on spaces
Dim split As String() = movieDetails(0).movieInformation.ToString.Split(" ")
i dont know how to put them into array. I keep getting this error " variable has been used before it has been assigned a value"
How would I split the following string?
test, 7535, '1,830,000', '5,000,000'
The result should be
test
7535
'1,830,000'
'5,000,000'
I try:
Dim S() as string = mystring.split(",")
But I get,
test
7535
'1
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have this stringmain
String="/MyApp/ViewPage.aspx?userId=admin&password=1&id=975"and i have two sting variables1)strTempUsername2)strTempPasswordin these variables i want to store userId and password values from mainStringso for this requirement how i wirte logic in codeHere
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I'm using vb.net 2.0. Here is my input string "When the string needs to be splited to fit on the lines, it is tried to split the string at a gab between words." I want to split string for the given word "to fit on the lines" and i gave like this code:
Dim string1 As
String() = strBody.Split("to fit on the lines")
But the output came like this :
string1 {Length=16} String()
(0) "When " String
(1) "he s" String
(2) "ring needs " String
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I want is to split the string as :
string1(0)="When the string needs to be splited " string1(1)=", it is tried to split the string at a gab between words."
i have one long field, a string. it looks like it was once xml. i am wondering if there is some way to split this field into the correct parts.
<Record><DocumentRequestID>7360095</DocumentRequestID><FirstName>ETHEL</FirstName><LastName>DANIELS</LastName><DateOfBirth>1927-04-21T00:00:00</DateOfBirth>
I have a filename in a string. I want to split the given string into 2 (1 is filename without extension, 2 is only extension) strings. Then add _dev to the end of first string and concatenate with 2nd one.
ex: Dim name as string="abc.txt"
Dim finalName as string
The finalName should be like this "abc_dev.txt"
Need to take a string in vb and split it. Also need to look through the two returned values and return the value which contains [URL]. Pipelines are the delimiter.
txtEmailFrom.Text = "john@huno.com|james@domain1.com"
Dim brokened() As String
brokened = Split(txtEmailFrom.Text, "|")
I'm having some issues using the String.Split method, Example here:
Dim tstString As String = "something here -:- urlhere"
Dim newtstString = tstString.Split(" -:- ")
MessageBox.Show(newtstString(0))
MessageBox.Show(newtstString(1))
The above, in PHP (My native language!) would return something here AND urlhere in the message boxes.
In VB.NET I get:
AND
: (colon)
Does the String.Split only work with standard characters?
I have a string variable with value "abcdefghijklmnop".now I want to split the string into string array with say 3 characters(last array element may contain less) in each array element from the right end.
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When I try to split a string into a string list where each element represents a line of the initial string, I get the "square" character, which I think is a linefeed or something, at the start of each line, except the first line. How can I avoid that? My code is as follows:
Dim strList as List(Of String)
If Clipboard.ContainsText Then
strList = Clipboard.GetText.Split(Environment.NewLine).ToList
End If