Timeline for What is the best way to parse this string in C#?
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| Aug 25, 2012 at 17:33 | history | edited | abatishchev |
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| Aug 25, 2012 at 11:21 | comment | added | Eric |
If values contain colons, this cannot be done. Consider a:b c:d. Is that two pairs, a => b and c => d, or just one, a => b c:d?
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| Aug 25, 2012 at 11:12 | history | edited | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
(its = possessive, it's = "it is" or "it has".)
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| May 31, 2011 at 13:01 | vote | accept | leora | ||
| May 31, 2011 at 12:53 | comment | added | Wonko the Sane | It seems as though all the solutions below assume certain things about the value. You will need to either get some control of the input, or at least some guarentee of the input, in order to insure proper parsing. In other words, you must guarentee that the input follows some format (key, delimiter, value), where the delimiter can never be found in the key or value, or the value is always enclosed in quotes, or... In other words, to use a pattern parser, there must be a guarenteed pattern to parse. | |
| May 31, 2011 at 12:42 | answer | added | Simon Mourier | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 31, 2011 at 12:07 | answer | added | Mud | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 31, 2011 at 12:05 | answer | added | DeveloperX | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 31, 2011 at 12:05 | comment | added | Jason Moore | @ ooo thanks for the clarification on the spaces not being in the keys. Now this problem is solvable (assuming there are no colons in both the key and the value). | |
| May 31, 2011 at 11:51 | answer | added | Jason Moore | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 31, 2011 at 11:45 | answer | added | Episodex | timeline score: 22 | |
| May 31, 2011 at 11:40 | history | edited | leora | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 31, 2011 at 11:27 | comment | added | leora | @All - keys will NOT have spaces in them | |
| May 31, 2011 at 11:26 | history | edited | leora | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 31, 2011 at 11:24 | comment | added | Jodrell |
+1 to vidstige, can we assume keys may not have spaces, can : be escaped?
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| May 31, 2011 at 11:22 | answer | added | Carra | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 31, 2011 at 11:22 | comment | added | ZombieSheep | Do you know in advance what allowable keys would be? If so, and you have to allow for spaces and colons within your delimited strings, you can minimise your pain with a bit of substitution on the input. | |
| May 31, 2011 at 11:18 | answer | added | abatishchev | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 31, 2011 at 11:14 | answer | added | ZombieSheep | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 31, 2011 at 11:09 | comment | added | vidstige | this cannot be done. How do you know if a word belongs to the value or to the next key? | |
| May 31, 2011 at 11:06 | history | edited | leora | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 31, 2011 at 11:05 | answer | added | Johann du Toit | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 31, 2011 at 11:04 | comment | added | leora | @jdehaan - good point. I know there is definitely no ":" in the key but i can possibly imagine that showing up in the value one day (even though i can't find an example now). I obviously want to be a bit future proof | |
| May 31, 2011 at 11:03 | comment | added | jdehaan |
Is it at least enforced that there is no : possible inside values? if not, you are stuck. If you generate the long string, then you have the possibility to escape the characters to avoid the trouble, but then you'll need something better than Split to read the input.
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| May 31, 2011 at 11:02 | comment | added | leora | @Jason - i am trying to get control, in which case i will change the separator character but i am still concerned that whatever character i use as a separator could also be in the value field. | |
| May 31, 2011 at 11:01 | comment | added | Stefan | do you have control over the input format? | |
| May 31, 2011 at 10:58 | history | asked | leora | CC BY-SA 3.0 |