Re: Interating over the characters in a string

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From: Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP] (x-code_at_no-spam-please.hotpop.com)
Date: 09/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:24:35 +0300

Hi,

Use the System.Globalization.StringInfo class to iterate over Unicode
characters. 

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Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP]
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"Carlo Razzeto" <crazzeto@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:eJSZrWWoEHA.1308@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Hello, I have a question in regards to .Net string maniplulation. I have a
> question in regards to interating over individual characters in a string.
> The problem is I have a CSV parser that will successfully parse out quoted
> csv files, the only issue is it will leave the leading and ending quotes
in
> tact. Before I go on I do realize since it's a CSV I could do
> stringval.replace( "\"", "" ); but I wanted to take the chance to learn
out
> to iterate over string values. Anyway, the problem is what I had written
> originally to do this was:
>
> if ( stringval[0] == '"' ) {
>     stringval = stringval.substring( 1, ( stringval.length - 1 ) );
> }
> if( stringval[( stringval.length - 1 )] == '"' ) {
>     stringval = stringval.substring( 0, ( stringval.length - 2 ) );
> }
>
> I wasn't stripping off the last " ever and I realize now that the problem
> has to do with .Net storing strings in UNICODE, which allows for character
> pairs to reprisent a single character. So my question here is, how does
one
> iterate over the character values in a string and replace it's value if
> neccessary?
>
> Carlo
>
>

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