i´m trying to aply a format to cells that contains the "SUBTOTAL " Word, this is my code:
ExcelAddress _formatRangeAddress = new ExcelAddress(2,1,tam,40);
string _statement = "$A2=\"SUBTOTAL \"";
var _cond1 = hoja.ConditionalFormatting.AddExpression(_formatRangeAddress);
_cond1.Style.Fill.PatternType = OfficeOpenXml.Style.ExcelFillStyle.Solid;
_cond1.Style.Fill.BackgroundColor.Color = System.Drawing.Color.LightSalmon;
_cond1.Style.Font.Color.Color = System.Drawing.Color.White;
_cond1.Formula = _statement;
And Works fine if the cell only contains this Word, but in all cases(except 1) the value of the cell will be "SUBTOTAL " + more text.
So i wold like to know if it´s posible to use wildcards or something similar to an SQL like statement.
Thanks.
=ISNUMBER(FIND("SUBTOTAL ", $A2))
if case sensitive
=ISNUMBER(SEARCH("SUBTOTAL ", $A2))
if case insensitive.
The functions Search and Find returns the index of first occurrence of the searched word, of #VALUE!, if nothing found. IsNumber decides, if it is number or #VALUE!
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I have this code written in C# but looks kind of "bad" and I would like to shorten it somehow and keep it clean and simple.
All this code works pretty fine but I want to know if there's any other way I can achieve the same thing.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that the firstLine has a bad date format attached with it, so it is like this: "This_is_my_first_line_20220126". So I split the string and then only join it with the corrected date. The problem is that I can never know how long the new string would be and I don't want to handle the code like this and go up to 100 parts.
Here's my code:
string correctDate = "26012022";
string[] lines = File.ReadAllLines("text.txt");
string firstLine = lines.FirstOrDefault();
//note: firstLine looks like this: This_is_my_first_line_20220126
string[] sub = firstLine.Split('_');
string name="";
if(sub.Length==2)
name = sub[0]+"_"+sub[1]+"_"+correctDate;
else if(sub.Length==3)
name = sub[0]+"_"+sub[1]+"_"+sub[2]+"_"correctDate;
...
else if(sub.Length==20)
name = sub[0]+"_"+ ... "_" + sub[19];
Now, my final name value should be "This_is_my_line_26012022" but I want it to depend on the length of the given string. So far I know that the maximum length would go up to 20 but I don't want my code to look like this. Can I shorten it somehow?
you can find the LastIndexOf the underscore and drop the date by using Substring:
string firstLine = "This_is_my_first_line_20220126";
string correctDate = "26012022";
string correctString = firstLine.Substring(0, firstLine.LastIndexOf("_") + 1) + correctDate;
Still a little perplexed with the split aproach, but this a way to join back all elements
string name = string.Join("_", sub.Take(sub.Length - 1).Append(correctDate));
Or use the substring method (and no need of all that split & join)
name = firstLine.Substring(0, firstLine.LastIndexOf("_") +1) + correctDate;
I forgot to mention that firstLine has a bad date format like "This_is_my_Line_20220125"
If you want to correct just the first line:
string correctDate = "26012022";
string[] lines = File.ReadAllLines("text.txt");
lines[0] = lines[0][..^8] + correctDate;
[..^8] uses C# 9's "indices and ranges" feature, that allows for a more compact way of taking a substring. It means "from the start of the string, up to the index 8 back from the end of the string".
If you get a wiggly line and possibly a messages like "... is not available in C# version X" you can use the older syntax, which would be more like lines[0] = lines[0].Remove(lines[0].Length - 8) + correctDate;
If you want to correct all lines:
string correctDate = "26012022";
string[] lines = File.ReadAllLines("text.txt");
for(int x = 0; x < lines.Length; x++)
lines[x] = lines[x][..^8] + correctDate;
If the incorrect date isn't always 8 characters long, you can use LastIndexOf('_') to locate the last _, and snip it to that point
string text = "Today is a good day for help. **David Diaz He went to school. **David Diaz like apple. ";
How to get how many times the text **David Diaz occurs in the string text?
UPDATED MY QUESTION
By using StartWhith you can check if the string starts whit ** if it is take the first two words of the string whits will represent the name
string text = "**David Diaz He went to school.";
if (text.StartsWith("**"))
{
var names = text.Split(' ')
.Take(2)
.ToArray();
var fullName = names[0] + " " + names[1];
}
UPDATE
As you said in the commend you want to look how many David Diaz occurs in one string, you can use regex for that.
string text = "Today is a good day for help. **David Diaz He went to school. **David Diaz like apple. ";
int matches = Regex.Matches(
text,
#"(?:\S+\s)?\S*David Diaz\S*(?:\s\S+)?",
RegexOptions.IgnoreCase
).Count;
var text = "Today is a good day for help. **David Diaz He went to school. **David Diaz like apple. ";
var pos = 0;
var num = 0;
var search = "**David Diaz";
while ((pos = text.IndexOf(search, pos)) > -1)
{
num ++;
pos += search.Length;
}
Console.WriteLine(num);
you can try out this in dotnetfiddle
Updated Answer:
It sounds like you want to find the number of times a substring exists in your text. For that, you'll want to use RegEx.Matches, as explained in this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3016577/682840
or LINQ, as explained in this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/541994/682840
Original Answer:
.StartsWith returns true/false if the string begins with the search string you provide. If you're wanting to know where a substring exists within your text, you'll need to use .IndexOf or a Regular Expression for more advanced scenarios.
IndexOf will return the location in the text where your provided search string starts (or -1 if it isn't found).
So I'm working on formatting a string and I need to line it up in a table, but this string has an undetermined number of characters. Is there anyway to have the string be in the same spot for each column? so far I have:
ostring += "Notes\t\t"
+ " : "
+ employees[number].Notes
+ "\t\t"
+ employees[number].FirstNotes
+ "\t\t"
+ employees[number].SecondNotes;
I use a similar fashion on the other rows, but they have a pre-determined number of digits, this however doesn't so I can't use the string modifiers like I would like.
Any ideas on what I need to do?
You can use String.PadRight() to force the string to a specific size, rather than using tabs.
When you are using String.Format item format has following syntax:
{ index[,alignment][ :formatString] }
Thus you can specify alignment which indicates the total length of the field into which the argument is inserted and whether it is right-aligned (a positive integer) or left-aligned (a negative integer).
Also it's better to use StringBuilder to build strings:
var builder = new StringBuilder();
var employee = employees[number];
builder.AppendFormat("Notes {0,20} {1,10} {2,15}",
employee.Notes, employee.FirstNotes, employee.SecondNotes);
You would first have to loop over every entry to find the largest one so you know hoe wide to make the columns, something like:
var notesWidth = employees.Max(Notes.Length);
var firstNotesWidth = employees.Max(FirstNotes.Length);
// etc...
Then you can pad the columns to the correct width:
var output = new StringBuilder();
foreach(var employee in employees)
{
output.Append(employee.Notes.PadRight(notesWidth+1));
output.Append(employee.FirstNotes.PadRight(firstNotesWidth+1));
// etc...
}
And please don't do a lot of string "adding" ("1" + "2" + "3" + ...) in a loop. Use a StringBuilder instead. It is much more efficient.
How do I write to a specific position in a Word document, for example, line 5, character 50? I have searched for a couple of hours, but couldn't find a solution.
I am using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word
If you are content with the more simple sentence, rather than lines:
ActiveDocument.Sentences(1).Characters(5).Select
Selection.Collapse
Selection.InsertBefore "added "
Five paragraphs and 50 spaces in VBA
Selection.Text = String(5, vbCrLf)
Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
Selection.Text = String(50, " ")
However, for a particular position, I would prefer a textbox:
Set sh = doc.Shapes.AddTextbox(1, 10, 344, 575, 80)
sh.Name = "Course1"
With some properties:
sh.Fill.Visible = False
sh.Line.Visible = False
sh.TextFrame.MarginLeft = 0#
sh.TextFrame.MarginRight = 0#
sh.TextFrame.MarginTop = 0#
sh.TextFrame.MarginBottom = 0#
If you will be inserting text at the same location every time a simple way to do this is to create a .dotx template file with a bookmark at the location. Make sure the template is included in the build
Doc = Word.Documents.Add("Directory\Filename")
Doc.Bookmarks.Item("BookmarkName").Range.Text = "Text to be inserted"
Finding a position in a word document to insert a table
You may find some useful information in the above location.
What am i doing wrong here? I want the users name to be shown in the output as propercase but I cant figure it out.
string proper = this.xTripNameTextBox.Text;
CultureInfo properCase = System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;
TextInfo currentInfo = properCase.TextInfo;
proper = currentInfo.ToTitleCase(proper);
this.xTripOutputLabel.Text = proper + Environment.NewLine + "The total gallons you would use: " + Output.ToString("0") + Environment.NewLine + "Total amount it will cost you: " + Coutput.ToString("C") + Environment.NewLine +" Your customer number is " + rnd1.Next(1, 1000).ToString();
I have tested the following on an all upper case word at it works:
string proper = "TEST STRING";
CultureInfo properCase = System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;
TextInfo currentInfo = properCase.TextInfo;
proper = currentInfo.ToTitleCase(currentInfo.ToLower(proper));
// proper = "Test String"
So - change the string to lower case before calling ToTitleCase.
The MSDN documentation does say that a string that is all upper case (such as an acronym) will not be converted and the sample code provided in the post corroborates this.
That's according to spec, quote from the doc: However, this method does not currently provide proper casing to convert a word that is entirely uppercase
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.textinfo.totitlecase.aspx
Without testing I'd guess that you could do it by first making it LowerCase and then TitleCase.
Seems right, I am using
return CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.ToTitleCase(text);
And it's working.
Try to force another culture info.
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How to capitalize the first character of each word, or the first character of a whole string, with C#?