Posted by Adam Buenz

Ever notice how its always the smallest code tasks that take the longest to solve? Thats how it is with me!

I am working on an emailing program and I wanted to be able to build an ErrorCollection class, inheriting from the StringCollection base class since it would allow the representation of a set of strings. I was stupidly calculating the length of the strings wrong though and just wasted 45 minutes this morning.

C#:
  1. ErrorCollection errors = new ErrorCollection();
  2. StringEnumerator enumerator = base.GetEnumerator();
  3. while (enumerator.MoveNext())
  4. {
  5. string rString = enumerator.Current.Replace("\r\n", "
  6. ");
  7. if ((rString.LastIndexOf("
  8. ") == -1) || (rString.LastIndexOf("
  9. ") != rString.Length))
  10. {
  11. rString = rString + "
  12. ";
  13. }
  14. errors.Add(rString);
  15. }
  16. return errors;

Bah!

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