Why CommaDelimitedStringCollection Made Me Happy Today
Another thing that I stumbled on today that has made me all sorts of happy is the CommaDelimitedStringCollection class, which basically let’s you take a bunch of string values and work with them in a comma delimited format (so I guess the class name is pretty intuitive :) ). I can’t even explain how many times I have re-invented this wheel. So let’s say that you have a ListBox control that contains a set of string type values, and you are adding the selected values to a list generic in something like an event handler, you would have this basically:
- List<String> m_gBoxGeneric = new List<String>();
- foreach (string l_strValue in l_oTbExample.SelectedItems)
- {
- m_gBoxGeneric.Add(l_strValue);
- }
where the l_oTbExample is just a ListBox control. This isn’t very earthshattering and I am just using that loop as an example. Now, let’s say you want to output those selected values into a comma delimited format. The easiest way to do it is to just use the CommaDelimitedStringCollection class, which natively provides this functionality. It would look like this:
- CommaDelimitedStringCollection m_oDelimitedFormat = new CommaDelimitedStringCollection();
- List<String>.Enumerator l_oEnumerator = m_gBoxGeneric.GetEnumerator();
- try
- {
- while (l_oEnumerator.MoveNext())
- {
- string l_strBoxVal = l_oEnumerator.Current;
- m_oDelimitedFormat .Add(l_strBoxVal);
- }
- }
- finally
- {
- l_oEnumerator.Dispose();
- }
Then you can just output the comma delimited values by doing a m_oDelimitedFormat.ToString() and you are done!
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The original version looks much more mature and reasonable, even with the funky Hungarian warts. Sorry, dude – this example does not sell me on this specialized class.