string read only error

[David]

Hi,
I wanted to replace all ',' with ';' but compiler gives
me an error that my subLine is read only
foreach ( ListViewItem.Li stViewSubItem subItem in
Item.SubItems)
{
subLine = subItem.Text;
int nIndex;
while ( (nIndex = subLine.LastInd exOf(',' ) ) != -
1 )
subLine[nIndex] = ';';
}
Thanks

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Re: string read only error

David,

Strings are immutable in .NET. Because of this, you will have to create
a new string, replacing the character in the string with the character that
you want. Basically, you should use the Replace method on the string, which
will return a new string with the replaced characters, like so:

foreach ( ListViewItem.Li stViewSubItem subItem in Item.SubItems)
subItem.Text = subItem.Text.Re place(',', ';');

Hope this helps.


--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mvp@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m


"David" <anonymous@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote in message
news:0c6101c399 75$94c24990$a30 1280a@phx.gbl.. .[color=blue]
> Hi,
> I wanted to replace all ',' with ';' but compiler gives
> me an error that my subLine is read only
> foreach ( ListViewItem.Li stViewSubItem subItem in
> Item.SubItems)
> {
> subLine = subItem.Text;
> int nIndex;
> while ( (nIndex = subLine.LastInd exOf(',' ) ) != -
> 1 )
> subLine[nIndex] = ';';
> }
> Thanks[/color]