search my String[]

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hey all,
can someone please show me how to search my String[] array to see if an
element "contains" a certain string constant and then return the index value
of the found element?

thanks,
rodchar

[Peter Morris]

Re: search my String[]

public int IndexOfSubStrin g(string[] values, string value)
{
for (int index = 0; index < values.Length; index++)
if (values[index].IndexOf(value) -1)
return index;
return -1;
}

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RE: search my String[]

Thanks for the help,
rod.

"rodchar" wrote:

hey all,
can someone please show me how to search my String[] array to see if an
element "contains" a certain string constant and then return the index value
of the found element?
>
thanks,
rodchar

[Gilles Kohl [MVP]]

Re: search my String[]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:48:01 -0700, rodchar
<rodchar@discus sions.microsoft .comwrote:

>hey all,
>can someone please show me how to search my String[] array to see if an
>element "contains" a certain string constant and then return the index value
>of the found element?

Here's something straightforward :

static int FindStringConta iningText(strin g[] strings, string textToFind)
{
for(int i = 0; i < strings.Length; i++)
{
if(strings[i].Contains(textT oFind))
{
return i;
}
}
return -1;
}

Returns the index of the string containing the text you're looking for, or -1
if not found.

call e.g. like so:

int foundPosition = FindStringConta iningText(theAr ray, "42");

With C# 3.0, you could also use LINQ:

foundPosition = Enumerable.Rang e(0, theArray.Length ).First(i =>
theArray[i].Contains("42") );

Regards,
Gilles.

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Re: search my String[]

Jon Skeet [C# MVP] wrote:

Jon Skeet [C# MVP] <skeet@pobox.co mwrote:

>rodchar <rodchar@discus sions.microsoft .comwrote:

>>can someone please show me how to search my String[] array to see if an
>>element "contains" a certain string constant and then return the index value
>>of the found element?

>See Array.IndexOf.

>
Whoops - apologies for this, I didn't read the question quite carefully
enough :(

It is actually pretty close.

With latest and greatest:

Array.FindIndex (strarr, (string strelm) =strelm.Contain s(fndstr))

Arne