String.Replace() in .net 1.1 did not work!

Hi, guys,

The following source code in Page_Load() did not work:

string pathVal = "2006\";
pathVal.Replace("\\", "/");

I still had the value "2006\", not "2006/", the one I expected.

I then tried the second line as:

pathVal.Replace('\', '/');

still no luck.

Any ideas? Thanks.Replace probably returns a new string that you need to set a variable to.

"Andrew" <Andrew@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:74E97D68-79AC-47AB-B2D3-802DF9579D77@.microsoft.com...
> Hi, guys,
> The following source code in Page_Load() did not work:
> string pathVal = "2006\";
> pathVal.Replace("\\", "/");
> I still had the value "2006\", not "2006/", the one I expected.
> I then tried the second line as:
> pathVal.Replace('\', '/');
> still no luck.
> Any ideas? Thanks.
You need to get the value value returned by Replace function. It returns
stirng variable.
"Andrew" <Andrew@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:74E97D68-79AC-47AB-B2D3-802DF9579D77@.microsoft.com...
> Hi, guys,
> The following source code in Page_Load() did not work:
> string pathVal = "2006\";
> pathVal.Replace("\\", "/");
> I still had the value "2006\", not "2006/", the one I expected.
> I then tried the second line as:
> pathVal.Replace('\', '/');
> still no luck.
> Any ideas? Thanks.
String.Replace() returns a new String value. You can always set the
returned value to the original string.

String.Replace() in .net 1.1 did not work!

Hi, guys,
The following source code in Page_Load() did not work:
string pathVal = "2006\";
pathVal.Replace("\\", "/");
I still had the value "2006\", not "2006/", the one I expected.
I then tried the second line as:
pathVal.Replace('\', '/');
still no luck.
Any ideas? Thanks.Replace probably returns a new string that you need to set a variable to.
"Andrew" <Andrew@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:74E97D68-79AC-47AB-B2D3-802DF9579D77@.microsoft.com...
> Hi, guys,
> The following source code in Page_Load() did not work:
> string pathVal = "2006\";
> pathVal.Replace("\\", "/");
> I still had the value "2006\", not "2006/", the one I expected.
> I then tried the second line as:
> pathVal.Replace('', '/');
> still no luck.
> Any ideas? Thanks.
>
You need to get the value value returned by Replace function. It returns
stirng variable.
"Andrew" <Andrew@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:74E97D68-79AC-47AB-B2D3-802DF9579D77@.microsoft.com...
> Hi, guys,
> The following source code in Page_Load() did not work:
> string pathVal = "2006\";
> pathVal.Replace("\\", "/");
> I still had the value "2006\", not "2006/", the one I expected.
> I then tried the second line as:
> pathVal.Replace('', '/');
> still no luck.
> Any ideas? Thanks.
>
String.Replace() returns a new String value. You can always set the
returned value to the original string.

string.trimstart()

I got to be something stupid, but for some reason I can get this code to work:

string username = HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name.ToString();char[] MyChar = {' ','\\'}; Login1.UserName = username.TrimStart(MyChar);

I want to trim the \ of: MAINOFFICE\username

Thanks,

Erick

Can you use :

username.Replace(@."\","");

TrimStart removes all the occurances from the beginning of the instance. "\" appears in the middle of the string.
string username ="MAINOFFICE\\username";

txtOutput.Text = username.Remove(0, username.LastIndexOf("\\") + 1);

that will work, assuming that usernames cant have the \ in them :P

keyboardcowboy:

username.LastIndexOf("\\")

Won't that just give the last index of the string?

I'm sorry. What I mean to said was I want to trim everything before the \, but sometimes it might not be MAINOFFICE thats the problem I'm having. I just want the username.

bullpit:

keyboardcowboy:

username.LastIndexOf("\\")

Won't that just give the last index of the string?

yes, but doing remove(0, LastIndexOf("\\")) will remove all characters from position 0 until the last \. and in this case it seems like the last character before the username will always be \. :)

This should work for the user who posted this question ... i think :P

username.Replace(username.Substring(0,username.LastIndexOf(@."\")+1),"");

Dim userStringAs String ="MAINOFFICE\userName"Dim userNameAs String = userString.SubString(userString.IndexOf("\") + 1)

Just make sure you use your @."\" in C# or "\\"

keyboardcowboy:

bullpit:

keyboardcowboy:

username.LastIndexOf("\\")

Won't that just give the last index of the string?

yes, but doing remove(0, LastIndexOf("\\")) will remove all characters from position 0 until the last \. and in this case it seems like the last character before the username will always be \. :)

This should work for the user who posted this question ... i think :P

yep, it worked like a charm for me.

Thanks

keyboardcowboy-

You are right, but may be I took OP's problem too seriously. He mentioned that he wanted to remove "\" until his last post. Your solution works. I unnecessarily gave a longer method with replace to remove all the characters before "\" in my last post. Ignore all crap that I post.

haha, yeah at first i thought he meant what you were showing to do, but I kinda figured he wanted only the user name.

now he has a handlefull of string altering techniques though :)

thanks guys. I'm sorry for the mess, was my bad.