Spliting Large String

[- Steve -]

I have a string that contains something along the lines of this:

This is a body of an e-mail message. I have no idea how long it goes, how
it ends, etc.

------ Do not modify below ------
<query>filename .csv</query>

I need to split the string into two parts. The body of the message part,
and I need to extract the filename between the <query> brackets. What's the
best way to go about this? I was thinking I could find the index of "------
Do not modify below ------" but that seems like a flakey way to do it.

[Daniel Billingsley]

Re: Spliting Large String

Well, you could us a regex, but that seems like unnecessary overkill. I
don't know what you mean exactly by "flakey", but using IndexOf to find the
<query> and the </query> and then Substring to get the part in between seems
straightforward enough to me. I would think any alternative you devised
would look just as "flakey" as IndexOf.


"- Steve -" <sevans@foundat ion.sdsu.edu> wrote in message
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> I have a string that contains something along the lines of this:
>
> This is a body of an e-mail message. I have no idea how long it goes, how
> it ends, etc.
>
> ------ Do not modify below ------
> <query>filename .csv</query>
>
> I need to split the string into two parts. The body of the message part,
> and I need to extract the filename between the <query> brackets. What's[/color]
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> best way to go about this? I was thinking I could find the index of[/color]
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[Tom Clement]

Re: Spliting Large String

If you're only searching it once, I don't see anything wrong with using
IndexOf(). You might consider using regular expressions if you expect to
search more than once.
Tom Clement
Apptero, Inc.


"- Steve -" <sevans@foundat ion.sdsu.edu> wrote in message
news:OiVrRACoEH A.1668@TK2MSFTN GP14.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
>I have a string that contains something along the lines of this:
>
> This is a body of an e-mail message. I have no idea how long it goes, how
> it ends, etc.
>
> ------ Do not modify below ------
> <query>filename .csv</query>
>
> I need to split the string into two parts. The body of the message part,
> and I need to extract the filename between the <query> brackets. What's
> the best way to go about this? I was thinking I could find the index of
> "------ Do not modify below ------" but that seems like a flakey way to
> do it.
>[/color]

[Phil Jenson]

Re: Spliting Large String

Steve,

If you want to allow for the unlikely eventuality that your body also
contains the mark

"------ Do not modify below ------"

(ie. it occurs twice) then use the method LastIndexOf

Phil...


"- Steve -" <sevans@foundat ion.sdsu.edu> wrote in message
news:OiVrRACoEH A.1668@TK2MSFTN GP14.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
>I have a string that contains something along the lines of this:
>
> This is a body of an e-mail message. I have no idea how long it goes, how
> it ends, etc.
>
> ------ Do not modify below ------
> <query>filename .csv</query>
>
> I need to split the string into two parts. The body of the message part,
> and I need to extract the filename between the <query> brackets. What's
> the best way to go about this? I was thinking I could find the index of
> "------ Do not modify below ------" but that seems like a flakey way to
> do it.
>[/color]