How to go directly "ToString" from array?

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Hello,

In the code below, there is a populated array of type string. Because there are some " marks that I am not sure really exist or not, I want to remove them by converting the array into a string. However, it appears that the only option is ToText.

Two questions:

  1. Whats the diff between string and text?
  2. Is there a way to do this without having to dimension a new variable?

Thank you,
Tim

Dim tmpToNo() As String
Dim tToNo As String
tToNo  = tmpToNo(1)  //  This gives the TO Number

Dim Num As integer = tToNo.ToInteger
tToNo = num.ToString
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Text is deprecated. Use String instead. Where are you seeing “ToText”?

Since your array is already of type String, why is there a need for any kind of conversion?

ToInteger will fail in the presence of a " character anyway.

What are you actually trying to do?

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Don’t quite understand what the issue is, but @Tim_Hare is spot on, don’t use Text anymore.

If you want to guarantee an integer value as a string from your array without an intermediate variable you could try:

tToNo = Integer(tToNo.ToInteger).ToString
4

Something like?

Dim tmpToNo() As String
Dim tToNo As String
tToNo  = tmpToNo(1).ToInteger.ToString

but I don’t understand this:

How converting the array into a string removes some " marks?

Also:

where do you see the ToText as the only option?

What Xojo version are you using?

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Hello and thank you for your responses.

What I have in the variable is “1”. I want to remove the quotes. I guess this is a backwards way of doing it! Better solution?

Using 2023 R4.
The only option that comes up is .ToText which is shown by the IDE.

@TimH - To Integer does not fail. But it is funky to say the least!

Tim

6

Are those regular quotes or curly quotes? (the forum usually change regular to curly)

You want something like this?

Var startString As String = """1"""
Var finalString As String = startString.ReplaceAll("""","")

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They are regular quotes.
Tim

8

There’s no quickie answer to this - you’re just going to have to loop through the elements of the array and use ReplaceAll to remove the offending characters.

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@Alberto -
You sample code worked perfectly. My question is, why does it need 4 quotes on the left and two on the right?

Tim

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Four quotes = a double quote character. Two quotes = empty string. " “” " is Xojo’s way to express a double quote character with a space before and a space after.

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Thank you Eric!

I appreciate the explanation.
Tim

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So maybe this?

Var startString() As String 
startString.Add("""1""")
startString.Add("2")
startString.Add("3""")

For i As Integer = startString.FirstIndex To startString.LastIndex
  startString(i) = startString(i).ReplaceAll("""","")
Next

2 quotes are for the string, let’s call them left and right quote or string endings, so if you only use 2 then is empty. To add a quote to a string we need a way to make it different, so a single quote within the string limits (left/right quote) needs to be doubled, so basically """" means:

  • first quote the start of the string code
  • last quote the end of the string code
  • second/third quote, add a single quote to the string
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Are you not looking for:

dim s as string = String.FromArray(tmpToNo, separator)

?

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You need to loop trough all string array items and aad them to an integer array with item.ToInteger
Or Integer.Parse(item)

Or use a variant array to begin with, so that you’l not have the issue in the first place.