Compare Strings

[Drew]

Hello -

I am a converted VB programmer. What I am trying to do
it compare two strings in an if statement. The problem
is that when I use string.compare it always returns a
negative 1. I have entered the same string, different
strings. The string is loaded from the results from a
dataset. The other string is loaded from a textbox.
Could someone please help me in this situation?

Thanks much.
Drew

[Joe Mayo]

Re: Compare Strings


"Drew" <anonymous@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote in message
news:275b01c3a9 60$b49d5430$a60 1280a@phx.gbl.. .[color=blue]
> Hello -
>
> I am a converted VB programmer. What I am trying to do
> it compare two strings in an if statement. The problem
> is that when I use string.compare it always returns a
> negative 1. I have entered the same string, different
> strings. The string is loaded from the results from a
> dataset. The other string is loaded from a textbox.
> Could someone please help me in this situation?[/color]

Hi Drew,

Your database may contain strings with extra spaces, so you may want to use
Trim(). Here are a few examples of comparing strings:

string str1 = "Some string";
string str2 = "Some string ";

Console.WriteLi ne(string.Compa re(str1, str2)); // -1
Console.WriteLi ne(string.Compa re(str1.Trim(), str2.Trim())); // 0

Console.WriteLi ne(str1.Equals( str2)); // false
Console.WriteLi ne(str1 == str2.Trim()); // true


Joe
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http://www.csharp-station.com

[Drew]

Re: Compare Strings

Thanks - I will try right now.

Drew[color=blue]
>-----Original Message-----
>
>"Drew" <anonymous@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote in[/color]
message[color=blue]
>news:275b01c3a 960$b49d5430$a6 01280a@phx.gbl. ..[color=green]
>> Hello -
>>
>> I am a converted VB programmer. What I am trying to do
>> it compare two strings in an if statement. The problem
>> is that when I use string.compare it always returns a
>> negative 1. I have entered the same string, different
>> strings. The string is loaded from the results from a
>> dataset. The other string is loaded from a textbox.
>> Could someone please help me in this situation?[/color]
>
>Hi Drew,
>
>Your database may contain strings with extra spaces, so[/color]
you may want to use[color=blue]
>Trim(). Here are a few examples of comparing strings:
>
> string str1 = "Some string";
> string str2 = "Some string ";
>
> Console.WriteLi ne(string.Compa re(str1, str2)); // -1
> Console.WriteLi ne(string.Compa re(str1.Trim(),[/color]
str2.Trim())); // 0[color=blue]
>
> Console.WriteLi ne(str1.Equals( str2)); // false
> Console.WriteLi ne(str1 == str2.Trim()); // true
>
>
>Joe
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>http://www.csharp-station.com
>
>
>.
>[/color]

[Drew]

Re: Compare Strings

That worked. Thanks for helping an old mind out. For
the life of me I couldn't figure out why that was
happening. Oh - it's the little things that get you.