Multiple .replace() in asp.net/vb.net

[Neo Geshel]

Greetings

I am using VB in my ASP.NET project that uses an admin web site to
populate a database that provides content for a front end web site. I am
looking for a way to use replace() to replace multiple entries of an
object within a string. That is, if a user hit [enter] twice to create
one new line, but [enter] just once to create another, I want both types
([vbcrlf vbcrlf] & [vbcrlf}) replaced by </p><p>.

The reason is this: I don't want to strip out multiple vbcrlf's at the
admin site/database, because the users are used to hitting [enter] twice
to create a new line (by creating a blank line between paragraphs).
However, when the content is displayed on the front end site, I need to
replace *any number* of sequential vbcrlf's (from just a single one, to
multiple ones of any number) with a single </p>vbcrlf[tab character]<p>
(the data will be dumped inside a single paragraph: <p>[data]</p>, so
this replacement of vbcrlf will break up the data into multiple paragraphs).

I am also curious as to how to string multiple replace()'s together.
That is, I want to convert regular quotes to curly quotes. I want to
replace one kind of single quote "text -> “text and then within the same
string also replace another kind of single quote text" -> textâ€. I am
sure that the replace() was built to have multiple expressions within
the bracket, but I can't seem to find any info on that.

And finally, any info on how to explicitly set certain special
characters, like tabs and spaces (much like how vbcrlf creates a return)
would be appreciated.

TIA
...Geshel
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[Michael Earls]

You should look into learning about the RegEx class. It's daunting at
first, but it will allow you to create replacements that you need easily.
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Greetings

I am using VB in my ASP.NET project that uses an admin web site to
populate a database that provides content for a front end web site. I am
looking for a way to use replace() to replace multiple entries of an
object within a string. That is, if a user hit [enter] twice to create
one new line, but [enter] just once to create another, I want both types
([vbcrlf vbcrlf] & [vbcrlf}) replaced by </p><p>.

The reason is this: I don't want to strip out multiple vbcrlf's at the
admin site/database, because the users are used to hitting [enter] twice
to create a new line (by creating a blank line between paragraphs).
However, when the content is displayed on the front end site, I need to
replace *any number* of sequential vbcrlf's (from just a single one, to
multiple ones of any number) with a single </p>vbcrlf[tab character]<p>
(the data will be dumped inside a single paragraph: <p>[data]</p>, so
this replacement of vbcrlf will break up the data into multiple paragraphs).

I am also curious as to how to string multiple replace()'s together.
That is, I want to convert regular quotes to curly quotes. I want to
replace one kind of single quote "text -> "text and then within the same
string also replace another kind of single quote text" -> text". I am
sure that the replace() was built to have multiple expressions within
the bracket, but I can't seem to find any info on that.

And finally, any info on how to explicitly set certain special
characters, like tabs and spaces (much like how vbcrlf creates a return)
would be appreciated.

TIA
....Geshel
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[Rick Mogstad]

replace all double VBCRLFs with single ones repeatedly until there are no
double VBCRLFs left, then do your replace.

Dim x As String

Do While x.IndexOf(System.Environment.NewLine & System.Environment.NewLine)

= 0

x = Replace(x, System.Environment.NewLine & System.Environment.NewLine,
System.Environment.NewLine)

Loop

x = Replace(x, System.Environment.NewLine, "</p><p>")


Greetings

I am using VB in my ASP.NET project that uses an admin web site to
populate a database that provides content for a front end web site. I am
looking for a way to use replace() to replace multiple entries of an
object within a string. That is, if a user hit [enter] twice to create
one new line, but [enter] just once to create another, I want both types
([vbcrlf vbcrlf] & [vbcrlf}) replaced by </p><p>.

The reason is this: I don't want to strip out multiple vbcrlf's at the
admin site/database, because the users are used to hitting [enter] twice
to create a new line (by creating a blank line between paragraphs).
However, when the content is displayed on the front end site, I need to
replace *any number* of sequential vbcrlf's (from just a single one, to
multiple ones of any number) with a single </p>vbcrlf[tab character]<p>
(the data will be dumped inside a single paragraph: <p>[data]</p>, so
this replacement of vbcrlf will break up the data into multiple paragraphs).

I am also curious as to how to string multiple replace()'s together.
That is, I want to convert regular quotes to curly quotes. I want to
replace one kind of single quote "text -> "text and then within the same
string also replace another kind of single quote text" -> text". I am
sure that the replace() was built to have multiple expressions within
the bracket, but I can't seem to find any info on that.

And finally, any info on how to explicitly set certain special
characters, like tabs and spaces (much like how vbcrlf creates a return)
would be appreciated.

TIA
....Geshel
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[Hans Kesting]

Greetings


I am also curious as to how to string multiple replace()'s together.
That is, I want to convert regular quotes to curly quotes. I want to
replace one kind of single quote "text -> "text and then within the
same string also replace another kind of single quote text" -> text".
I am sure that the replace() was built to have multiple expressions within
the bracket, but I can't seem to find any info on that.


TIA
...Geshel

You can't write multiple replacements with a single bracket-pair,
but you can use something like
myString = myString.Replace(..).Replace(...).Replace(...)

Maybe you can replace "<space><quote>" with "<space><open curly quote>"
and so on.

Hans Kesting

 

[Guest]

Use Regex to replace. You can set up Regex with a pattern that replaces one,
or more, instances of \r\n with </p><p>. It would be far more costly to have
it loop until all \r\n were replaced.

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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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