Hi
i cant help but wander, am i doing this right!!
i have a feeling im stuck in my old VB6 way of writing functions and find it time consuming coming up with logic all the time
a little background on what im doing.....
im loading data from files which is in a certain format.
to keep it simple theres a name (im treating like a column), and different values associated to that name
what ive done so far is create a class with 2 variables.....
MyClass()
string(for the name)
list of string(for all the variables)
and this class is also being put into a list for each file i read
so i have...
MyClassList as list(of MyClass)
what im doing now is merging them together sorting duplicates
if 2 of the same name strings are found then i have to merge the variables from both under 1 name(class instance)
Classitem1 Classitem2
Name1 - var1,var2,var3,var4 Name1 - var1,var5,var6
after sort will be
Classitem3
Name1 - var1, var2,var3,var4,var1,var5,var6
and after this i will remove duplicates from classitem3 which should be easy
i have already sorted everything but is there better ways in .net to achieve the following...
can i not use list.fornext and lambda expressions or something to make this smaller, or some part of .net im not aware of
another one
this sorts the string(delimited) from the files into seperate strings, is this ok in .net standards
typical format of the vars string in the file is "#var|var|var|var"
any suggestions :)
i cant help but wander, am i doing this right!!
i have a feeling im stuck in my old VB6 way of writing functions and find it time consuming coming up with logic all the time
a little background on what im doing.....
im loading data from files which is in a certain format.
to keep it simple theres a name (im treating like a column), and different values associated to that name
what ive done so far is create a class with 2 variables.....
MyClass()
string(for the name)
list of string(for all the variables)
and this class is also being put into a list for each file i read
so i have...
MyClassList as list(of MyClass)
what im doing now is merging them together sorting duplicates
if 2 of the same name strings are found then i have to merge the variables from both under 1 name(class instance)
Classitem1 Classitem2
Name1 - var1,var2,var3,var4 Name1 - var1,var5,var6
after sort will be
Classitem3
Name1 - var1, var2,var3,var4,var1,var5,var6
and after this i will remove duplicates from classitem3 which should be easy
i have already sorted everything but is there better ways in .net to achieve the following...
Code:
'this basically uses the list of classes removes duplicate names, joins there variables together in there list and returns the fixed list (of class1)
Public Function RemoveDuplicatesInNames(tmpList As List(Of Class1)) As List(Of Class1)
Dim tmpstrings As New List(Of String) ' this is helping with the problem accessing variable inside the class
RemoveDuplicatesInNames = New List(Of Class1)
For Each item As Class1 In tmpList 'items in the list passed to the function
If Not tmpstrings.Contains(item.MacroString) Then
tmpstrings.Add(item.MacroString)
RemoveDuplicatesInNames .Add(item)
Else
For Each item2 As Class1 In RemoveDuplicatesInNames
If item2.MacroString = item.MacroString Then
item2.ControlNameList.AddRange(item.ControlNameList)
Exit For
End If
Next
End If
Next
Return RemoveDuplicatesInNames
End Functionanother one
this sorts the string(delimited) from the files into seperate strings, is this ok in .net standards
Code:
Private Function ParseVars(VarStringToParse As String) As List(Of String)
ParseVars= New List(Of String)
Dim StringPos As Long = 0
Do While StringPos <= VarStringToParse.Length
Select Case VarStringToParse.Chars(StringPos)
Case "#"
VarStringToParse= VarStringToParse.Remove(StringPos, 1)
Case "|"
ParseVars.Add(VarStringToParse.Substring(0, StringPos))
VarStringToParse= VarStringToParse.Remove(0, StringPos + 1)
StringPos = 0
Case Else
StringPos += 1
End Select
If VarStringToParse.Contains("#") = False Then
If VarStringToParse.Contains("|") = False Then
ParseVars.Add(VarStringToParse)
StringPos = VarStringToParse.Length + 1
End If
End If
Loop
Return ParseVars
End Functionany suggestions :)