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C# search for words stored in clipboard and output searched words to the clipboard

I am new to C# and need help formatting this code I am trying read from the clipboard for specific words then output it back to the clipboard. There will need to be an endless number or words for me to add in the string list search.
Text = Clipboard.GetText();
string Text = "Text to analyze for words, chair, table";
List<string> words = new List<string> { "chair", "table", "desk" };
var result = words.Where(i => Text.Contains(i)).ToList();
TextOut = Clipboard.SetText();
\\outputs “chair, table” to the clipboard

The problem you have is that result is a list of words, but you can't put a list on the clipboard. You have to turn it into a string.
You can do this using the Join method (string.Join), and specifying what you want to put in between the words, which is a comma and a space:
//string Text = Clipboard.GetText();
string Text = "Text to analyze for words, chair, table";
List<string> words = new List<string> { "chair", "table", "desk" };
// No need for ToList - the enumerable will work with Join
IEnumerable<string> foundWords = words.Where(i => Text.Contains(i));
string result = string.Join(", ", foundWords);
Clipboard.SetText(result);

Your code is nearly fine.
I think you need to split words in your clipboard with spaces or commas but you need to find something to do this.
and then :
var Text = Clipboard.GetText();
//imagine you have words, chair, table
//you split to have an array containing
var arrayString = Text.Split(',')
List<string> wordsToSearch = new List<string> { "chair", "table", "desk" };
//you check your list
var result = wordswordsToSearch.Where(i => arrayString.Contains(i)).ToList();
//and set clipboard with matching content
var TextOut = Clipboard.SetText(result);
\\outputs “chair, table” to the clipboard
I don't know if my code works but this is the idea from what i understood from your need.

how to take specific column from text file(.txt) with delimiters with C#

I have example data like this , the data is in the text file(.txt) sry i got this type of file, if its excel or csv maybe it will be easier
Edit : i make a console app with C#
FamilyID;name;gender;DOB;Place of birth;status
1;nicky;male;01-01-1998;greenland;married
1;sonia;female;02-02-1995;greenland;married
2;dicky;male;04-01-1995;bali;single
3;redding;male;01-05-1996;USA;single
3;sisca;female;05-03-1994;australia;married
i want to take the specific column from that data, for example i want to take FamilyID,Name and status.
I already tried some code to read data and take all the data and list it to new text file.
The goal is to create a new text file based on family ID, and only take specific columns.
The problem is : i cant take a specific column that i want from text file (don't know how to select many column in the code that i write)
DateTime date = DateTime.Now;
string tgl = date.Date.ToString("dd");
string bln = date.Month.ToString("d2");
string thn = date.Year.ToString();
string tglskrg = thn + "/" + bln + "/" + tgl;
string filename = ("C:\\Users\\Documents\\My Received Files\\exampledata.txt");
string[] liness = File.ReadAllLines(filename);
string[] col;
var lines = File.ReadAllLines(filename);
var groups = lines.Skip(1)
.Select(x => x.Split(';'))
.GroupBy(x => x[0]).ToArray();
foreach (var group in groups)
{
Console.WriteLine(group);
File.WriteAllLines(#"C:\\Users\\Documents\\My Received Files\\exampledata_"+group.Key+".txt", group.Select(x => string.Join(";", x)));
}
maybe someone can help? thankyou

One way to approach this would be capture the details to a data structure and later write the required details to file. For example,
public class Detail
{
public int FamilyID{get;set;}
public string Name{get;set;}
public string Gender{get;set;}
public DateTime DOB{get;set;}
public string PlaceOfBirth{get;set;}
public string Status{get;set;}
}
Now you can write a method that parses the string based on delimiter and returns an IEnumerable.
public IEnumerable<Detail> Parse(string source,char delimiter)
{
return source.Split(new []{Environment.NewLine},StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
.Skip(1)
.Select(x=>
{
var detail = x.Split(new []{delimiter});
return new Detail
{
FamilyID = Int32.Parse(detail[0]),
Name = detail[1],
Gender = detail[2],
DOB = DateTime.Parse(detail[3]),
PlaceOfBirth = detail[4],
Status = detail[5]
};
}
);
}
Client Call
Parse(stringFromFile,';');
Output
Now you can pick and write the details you want to write to output file from the collection.

try this.
var list = new List<String>();
list.Add("FamilyID;name;gender;DOB;Place of birth;status");
list.Add("1;nicky;male;01-01-1998;greenland;married");
list.Add("1;sonia;female;02-02-1995;greenland;married");
list.Add("2;dicky;male;04-01-1995;bali;single");
list.Add("3;redding;male;01-05-1996;USA;single");
list.Add("3;sisca;female;05-03-1994;australia;married");
var group = from item in list.Skip(1)
let splitItem = item.Split(';', StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
select new
{
FamilyID = splitItem[0],
Name = splitItem[1],
Status = splitItem[5],
};
foreach(var item in group.ToList())
{
Console.WriteLine($"Family ID: {item.FamilyID}, Name: {item.Name}, Status: {item.Status}");
}

List, strings and vs Template

I'm having a list of strings whit some values and I want to make some kind of variable for keeping code that I will be using in template file.
For example lets say I have list with this 3 string values: configService, scaleCoefConfigService, sessionService. Name of the list is chItemName.
And I need to generate this kind of code that I will parse later into template:
[Dependency("configService")]
[Dependency("scaleCoefConfigService")]
[Dependency("sessionService")]
So my question is can make some variable and mechanism for iterating thou list of strings that adds every single item from list to variable?
I've tried this:
foreach (var tp in controllerChecked)
{
var genCode = "[Dependency](" '"' + chItemName + '"'")] \n"
}
controllerChecked is collection of objects and one of the objects value is Name that I'm getting like this:
var chItemName = controllerChecked.Select(c => c.Name).ToList();
This is how the list chItemName is getting those strings.
But of course it is impossible to use + with lists and this kind of stuff will never work. Someone has better idea?

In your example, you are not using the tp variable, which contains will contain each of the values within controllerChecked, one at a time.
You could just iterate through the chItemName list and add the result to a StringBuilder:
StringBuilder codeBuilder = new StringBuilder();
foreach (string tp in chItemName)
{
codeBuilder.AppendLine("[Dependency(\"" + tp + "\")]");
}
string code = codeBuilder.ToString();
If controllerChecked contains more information, you could also directly access it:
StringBuilder codeBuilder = new StringBuilder();
foreach (var item in controllerChecked)
{
string propertyName = item.Name.SubString(1);
codeBuilder.AppendLine("[Dependency(\"" + item.Name + "\")]");
codeBuilder.AppendLine("public " + item.Type + " " + propertyName + " { get; set; }");
codeBuilder.AppendLine();
}
string code = codeBuilder.ToString();
PS. I would definitely change the name of chItemName to chItemNames as it is a list, but that is up to you of course.

This worked perfectly good. I have little bit harder version of this, if you can figure out how to do this:
Lets say that instead of one chItemName list I have 2 more: fName and chItemType, both are string lists.
And I have to generate this kind of code:
[Dependency("alarmsService")]
public IAlarmsService AlarmsService { get; set; }
[Dependency("jsonFactory")]
public IJSONFactoryService JsonFactory { get; set; }
[Dependency("dataBean")]
public IDataBean DataBean { get; set; }
alarmsServise, jsonFactory and dataBean are items of chItemName.
IAlarmsService, IJSONFactoryService and IDataBean are items of chItemType.
AlarmsService, Json Factory and DataBean are items of fName list.
fName is list that I got from chItemType by trimming the first letter from each string in list:
List<string> fName = new List<string>();
foreach(var i in chItemType)
{
var newName = i.Remove(0,1);
fName.Add(newName);
}
So only that list is not a part of controllerChecked list. The othere two are defined like this:
var chItemType = controllerChecked.Select(c => c.Type).ToList();
var chItemName = controllerChecked.Select(c => c.Name).ToList();
Can I edit foreach somehow or maybe I can make parts of code with StringBulider and after that merged them together?

Getting values from a list using foreach

I have list that have values like"
[0] = "{ id = ES10209005, views = 501 }"
[1] = "{ id = HYT0209005, views = 5678}"
[3] = "{ id = POI0209005, views = 4568}"
I would like to pass the values(id,views) to a method using a for each loop.
method(id,views)
Something like:
foreach (string v in updatereponse)
{
method()
}
How do I isolate each value(id,views) from each row in the list then pass it to the method?

The list contains just a bunch of strings, anything based on this to fix the problem would be just a workaround (e.g. string parsing). You should really switch to a strongly typed model, e.g. define a class ViewCount:
public class ViewCount
{
public string Id {get;set;}
public int Views {get;set;}
}
You can then use a List<ViewCount> populate the list:
List<ViewCount> viewcounts = new List<ViewCount>();
viewCounts.Add(new ViewCount() { Id = "ES10209005", Views = 501 });
Since each ViewCount instance has Id and Views properties you can now do the proper thing:
foreach (var item in updatereponse)
{
method(item.Id, item.Views);
}
If you are saving this data in a file, an alternative would be to use XML instead of custom strings, then you could use Linq to XML to populate a List<ViewCount>, e.g. using a simple XML like this:
<ViewCounts>
<ViewCount id="ES10209005" views="501" />
</ViewCounts>
You can then load your list:
XElement viewXml = XElement.Load("test.xml");
List<ViewCount> viewCounts = viewXml.Descendants("ViewCount")
.Select(x => new ViewCount()
{
Id = (string)x.Attribute("id"),
Views = (int)x.Attribute("views")
}).ToList();

foreach (string v in updateresponse)
{
var values = v.Split(",");
var id = values[0].Replace("{ id = ", "").Trim();
var view = values[1].Replace("views = ", "").("}","").Trim();
method(id, value);
}

Here's another way...you may want to add error checking:
String Data = "{ id = ES10209005, views = 501 }";
String[] Segments = Data.Split(new char[] { ' ', ',' });
string ID = Segments[3];
int views = int.Parse(Segments[7]);

Assuming the structure of your String is like you showed us always, this can work for you.
// First split id and views part.
String[] firstSplit = v.Split(',');
// Get the respected value for each part.
String id = firstSplit[0].Split('=')[1].Trim();
String views = firstSplit[1].Split('=')[1].Trim().Replace("}","");

You can use String methods to retrieve the items (use Split and SubString for example) or you can use a regular expression.
E.g.
var list = UpdateResponse[0].Split("=,} ") ;
will result in a list split by all these characters (including space).
Then check the correct indices to use (use a debugger for that). Then you get something like:
var id = list[5];
var views = list[8];
(note: check the indices 5 or 8, they are just a guess).

Winforms C# change string text order

I am new to C# and I get the user's name that is system generated and it comes in the format:
LastName, FirstName
I want to change this to be added to a database
FirstName.LastName
I am totally stuck on how to do this, any help would be great,

If the order always comes as "Lastname, Firstname", the following code should work:
var variableContainingLastNameFirstName = "LastName, FirstName";
var split = variableContainingLastNameFirstName.Split(new char[] {',' });
var firstNamelastName = string.Format("{0}, {1}", split[0], split[1]);

Try this:
string username = "LastName, FirstName";
string[] words = username.Split(new string[]{", "});
string result = words[1] + "." + words[0]; // storing
// for output
Console.WriteLine("{0}.{1}", words[1], words[0]);
Console.WriteLine(result);