String handling

ASP.NETWindowsBeginnerWinForm

String - General

String Manipulations using TCHAR Library

4 Jul 2014

Md Atiqur Rahman (Atique)

Tips and tricks on String manipulations in Unicode (Windows Programming context)

C++WindowsMFCDevBeginner

PowerShell Script for Reviewing Text Shown to Users

26 Jun 2014

John D. Cook

A script for extracting string literals from source code for review

MatchKit Library

21 Apr 2014

fabio bussu

MatchKit is a .NET Library that provides a set of classes to build patterns to match simple and complex strings

C#Windows.NETDevstringPatternsCapture

C# String Extensions

5 Dec 2013

Prabu ram

Some commonly used operations with string in c# as extension methods

C#ASP.NETSQL.NETArchitectDevADO.NETBeginner

How to parse chunk by chunk a large CSV file and bulk insert to a database

25 Nov 2013

S. M. Ahasan Habib

In this article I will demonstrate how to read a large CSV file chunk by chunk (line basis) and populate DataTable object and bulk insert to database.

More implementations of extended string.Format()

6 Sep 2013

Ivan Yakimov

Here I describe several implementations of extended string.Format() methods.

.NET2.0.NET3.5C#XMLDevIntermediateAdvanced.NET4.NET4.5

Extended string.Format()

19 Jul 2013

Ivan Yakimov

Here I describe how you can write your own implementation of string.Format method using slightly more readable syntax of format string.

C#.NETDevBeginner

Enhanced String Handling III

4 Jun 2013

Avi Farah

Text document files can be enhanced by using construct and equivalent classes that "know" how to evaluate the constructs.

C# Random String Generator

18 Apr 2013

brol.sergii

A C# class that can generate random strings and supports customisation.

C#.NETtools

Structuring a Word Search Generator

2 Apr 2013

austinbox

How to structure the logic of a word search engine.

C#3.0.NETDevIntermediateC#4.0

A lightweight recursive text template data formatter

13 Mar 2013

Michael D Bray

Filling in text templates from a data source.

C#.NETDevIntermediateRecursiveregular-expressiontemplate

Schemeer, a Semi XML and JSON Handler

22 Jan 2013

lxdfigo

It is a lib that can process XML documents or JSON by changing a config file.

C++WindowsWin32

How to reverese a string in C#/.NET with almost one line of code using P/Invoke

4 Jan 2013

Kerem Guemruekcue

How to reverese a string in C#/.NET with almost one line of code using a build in Windows library function which is available on any Windows system.

Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaTabletPCEmbeddedC#.NETWin32Dev

Expand string CAML queries via lambda expressions with Camlex.Net

4 Dec 2012

sadomovalex

Shows how using reverse engineering feature developers may add new conditions into string CAML queries using lambda expressions.

.NET3.5C#WindowsDevIntermediateSharepointexpressionTreescamlServices

CBuilder - An STL 'replacement' for the FormatMessage API

27 Sep 2012

PJ Arends

This is an alternative for "MakeMessage - An STL 'replacement' for the FormatMessage API"

C#.NETDevIntermediateAdvancedC#4.0

Efficient string concatenation algorithm implements String.Join() method

23 Sep 2012

DrABELL

Alternative solution that demonstrates performance improvement using String.Join() (extends original one:"StringBuilderPlus Improves Upon StringBuilder").

C# Universal String Parsing Utility

10 Aug 2012

Sympletech

A simple utility to help convert strings into other types

C#3.0.NETIntermediateC#4.0

Word wrap without cutting words

7 Jun 2012

Matt T Heffron

This is an alternative for "Word wrap without cutting words"

C#.NETDevLINQBeginnerIntermediateC#3.5

Tiny Fluent String API simplifies ToString and Console output

3 Jun 2012

Lee Robie

Simple extension methods that greatly simplify ToString, Logging, and Debug output.

String Manipulation in the .NET Micro Framework

18 May 2012

jfriedman

An article on string manipulation in the .NET Micro Framework.

C#ASP.NETWindowsWinMobile.NETArchitectDevXAMLWPFBeginner

SSE accelerated case-insensitive substring search

14 May 2012

anlarke

Another take on the classic, now using SSE instructions

C++CWindows

.NET String Resources

19 Apr 2012

Jani Giannoudis

Concepts and patterns for the handling of strings in multilingual applications.

The ReplaceMany Method

16 Jan 2012

Jacek Gajek

Performing many replacements in a string at one time.

.NETDevIntermediateC#4.0

CString-clone Using Standard C++

7 Dec 2011

Joe O'Leary

A Drop-In replacement for CString that builds on the Standard C++ Library's basic_string template

C#.NETGDI+DevLINQIntermediateAdvancedWinForm

Word Cloud (Tag Cloud) Generator Control for .NET Windows.Forms in C#

30 Jul 2011

George Mamaladze

Generate a word cloud form some input text. A word cloud is a randomly arranged set of words used in your text. The size and the color of each word expresses its usage frequency. Rarely used words are small and pale. The control is clickable and allows to identify a word under mouse.

Custom String Formatter

24 Jul 2011

dotted_decimal

Custom formatting of String datatype in .NET based on intuitive formatting pattern

C#3.0C#Windows.NETIntermediate

Yet Another Custom Formatter

20 Jul 2011

SimmoTech

Helper class to build formatted strings and lists. Lots of features and very quick.

C#1.0C#2.0C#3.0C#Windows.NETArchitectDevIntermediateAdvanced

StringBuilderPlus Improves Upon StringBuilder

1 Jun 2011

AspDotNetDev

1 alternative

StringBuilderPlus facilitates prefixing and suffixing strings and StringBuilderPluses in an efficient manner.

UniqueStringList Revisited

11 May 2011

SimmoTech

A useful class now twice as fast.

C#.NETDevIntermediatestring

Dynamic String Arrays in 3D

12 Feb 2011

csrss

This article describes creating and managing 1D, 2D and 3D string arrays

C++CWindowsDevIntermediate

Enhanced String Handling

16 Dec 2010

Avi Farah

Allow for constructs within a string to be programmatically evaluated for a final string value

C#.NETVisual-StudioDevIntermediateVS2010regular-expressionGeneralstringprocessing

RTF Document Constructor Library

16 Aug 2010

Dima Popov

Create Rich Text Format documents programatically.

C#DevIntermediate.NET4WinForm

Advanced String Processing

27 Jun 2010

Chris Boss

An advanced article about string processing

DevAdvancedAll-Topics

TRADACOMS Order 9 Reader

24 May 2010

Rui Figueiredo

A simple class to read EDI TRADACOMS Order 9.

IBAN Verification in C#, Excel Automation Add-in, Word SmartTag

31 Jan 2010

Serdar Altug

IBAN verification algorithm in C# and used in Excel UDF and Word SmartTag.

C#Windows.NETDevCOMOfficeIntermediate

Optimizing string operations in C#

11 Jan 2010

Kubajzz

Should you use Regular Expressions, built-in .NET methods, or your own solution written from scratch?

VBWindows.NETDevIntermediate

String Optimization in VB.NET

24 Dec 2009

Ali Tarhini

String optimization methods and best practices in VB.NET.

VBWindows.NETDevBeginner

TextFieldWriter

5 Oct 2009

jlabrou

An opposite way to FileIO.TextFieldParser to easily write fixed-length fields into a text file.

String and vector manipulation through example: Morse code and more

30 Jul 2009

CrazyJugglerDrummer

Make a program that can perform various manipulations on a string.

C++DevBeginner

Single Instance String Store for .NET

16 Jul 2009

Kendall Miller

By implementing a single instance string store, you can significantly reduce the memory footprint of your application.

C#.NETDevBeginnerIntermediate

Remove the security credentials from a connection string

25 Jun 2009

Simon Tagg

This might save you 15 minutes and avoid the embarrasment of returning your 'sa' password to your customers along with an error message.

C#WindowsDevBeginnerWin2008

Untabify and Tabify

16 Jan 2009

PIEBALDconsult

Untabify and Tabify Extension Methods for intending code.

.NET3.5C#.NETDevIntermediate

String Extension Collection for C#

27 Nov 2008

Tomas Kubes

Several useful extensions for System.String.

C#3.0C#.NETDevIntermediate

RichText Builder (StringBuilder for RTF)

12 Nov 2008

seeblunt

RichText Builder - use in place of StringBuilder to output RTF.

.NET2.0VS2008C#.NETVisual-StudioDevIntermediateAdvancedWinForm

Handling non-English characters UTF8 with MS VC++ 2005

6 Nov 2008

osella.esteban

This article describes how to handle streams of non-English characters.

VC6VC7VC7.1VC8.0VS2005C++/CLIWindowsVisual-StudioDevBeginner

Revise

9 Jul 2008

Samjiman

Revise is a command line text editing tool

VS2008C++WindowsWin32Visual-StudioDevBeginner

Easy String Compression and Encryption

1 Jul 2008

BTDex

Class module to easily de-/compress and en-/decrypt big strings

.NET2.0VS2005.NET3.0VB8.0VB9.0.NET3.5VBASP.NET.NETVisual-Studio

Plural Forms

15 Apr 2008

Peter Kankowski

Spelling messages like "5 file(s) found" correctly in any language

C++C

Natural Sort Comparer

28 Dec 2007

Justin.Jones

An implementation of a Natural Sort Comparer

C#1.0C#2.0C#3.0C#

Extending CStringArray

11 Dec 2007

Anders Eriksson

An extended CStringArray class

C++WindowsVisual-StudioMFCDevIntermediate

RDF to RSS Converter

24 Oct 2007

Govardhana Reddy

This article will help you to find a way to convert RDF to RSS Feed format.

.NET1.0.NET1.1.NET2.0VS.NET2003VS2005C#WindowsDevIntermediate

A C++ StringBuilder Class

14 Sep 2007

Omer Tripp

An atricle introducing a StringBuilder class written in C++

VC6VC8.0VS2005WindowsDevIntermediate

XString - non-MFC non-STL string functions

7 Aug 2007

Hans Dietrich

XString offers functions for remove, replace, trim, and case-insensitive search that are not included in the CRT.

String enumerations in C#

26 Jul 2007

Kiran Bheemarti

String enumerations for two way binding.

VC6VC7VC7.1VC8.0Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaVS.NET2003VS2005

String Wildcard Matching (* and ?)

22 Jul 2007

M Shahid Shafiq

A simple function to perform wildcard ( * ? ) string matching

Convert Between std::string and std::wstring, UTF-8 and UTF-16

20 May 2007

rh_

How to convert safely STL strings between Unicode formats

C++WindowsVisual-StudioSTLDevBeginner

XSearch - a class that implements a search engine-style advanced search

16 May 2007

Hans Dietrich

XSearch implements a search engine-style advanced search, including ALL, EXACT PHRASE, AT LEAST ONE, and WITHOUT words. XSearch is based on a multiple-substring search algorithm.

VC6Win2KWinXPMFCDevIntermediate

Parsing CSV embedded in double quotes - RFC 4180

3 May 2007

VaibhavGaikwad

Simple ways to parse CSV documents when values are embedded in double quotes.

JavascriptWindowsVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

Fast and Then Even Faster String Concatenation With JScript

25 Mar 2007

alex turner

Concatenating strings is critical in many dynamic content situations. Here is how to make it scale and then be fast and scale.

Implement Phonetic ("Sounds-like") Name Searches with Double Metaphone Part VI: Other Methods & Additional Resources

19 Mar 2007

Adam Nelson

Surveys other phonetic matching techniques, and presents additional resources on the subject.

VC7Win2KWinXPWin2003Visual-StudioDevAdvanced

Implement Phonetic ("Sounds-like") Name Searches with Double Metaphone Part I: Introduction & C++ Implementation

19 Mar 2007

Adam Nelson

Introduces the Double Metaphone algorithm for phonetic comparison of proper names, and provides a practical C++ implementation for use in the reader's projects.

VC6VC7VC7.1WindowsVisual-StudioDevAdvanced

A Lite-Memory Dictionary

10 Mar 2007

Dileepa Jayathilaka

An article on the implementation of a dictionary where everything is kept in the disk as a B-Tree.

VC6Visual-StudioDevIntermediate

A Variable-based String Parser

27 Feb 2007

Dileepa Jayathilaka

An article on a tool which unifies a string with a template consisting of variables and constants

C++Visual-StudioDevIntermediate

FormatString - Smart String Formatting

19 Feb 2007

Ivo Beltchev

Smart string formatting and other string utilities

VC6VC7VC7.1VC8.0VS.NET2003VS2005C++WindowsVisual-StudioMFC

Useful CString Manipulation Functions

31 Jan 2007

Dennis Gourjii

A set of functions to perform the tasks that CString fails to address properly

VC8.0VS2005C++WindowsVisual-StudioMFCDevIntermediate

Template String Tokenizer

5 Jan 2007

Nick Alexeev

A template string tokenizer class that works with both CStringArray and CStringList.

C++WindowsVisual-StudioDevBeginner

Keeping It Clean - String Function Wrappers for VS2005

17 Nov 2006

John Simmons / outlaw programmer

A technique for making stdio functions compile clean regardless of the Microsoft compiler used

VC6VC7VC7.1VC8.0VS.NET2003VS2005WindowsDevIntermediate

KString class, a non MFC string class

15 Oct 2006

Hadi Dayvary

KString class, a non MFC string class.

VC6VC7VC7.1Win2KWinXPWin2003VS.NET2003DevIntermediate

Full Text Search Tool

14 Sep 2006

getmayukh

This is an implementation of a text search tool, which can be used to index and search for texts within a collection of documents. The code is written in C# .NET and requires framework 1.1 to run. No third party search tool has been used, every bit of the algorithm has been implemented from scratch.

C#Windows.NETVisual-StudioDevAdvanced

How to Format a String

9 Aug 2006

Nitron

This article illustrates how to format a std::string using a variable argument list similar to CString's Format.

C++WindowsVisual-StudioDevBeginner

StringTokenizer Library

23 Apr 2006

QmQ

Yet another C# implementation of Java's StringTokenizer (in a ready to use library).

C#Windows.NETVisual-StudioDevBeginner

MakeMessage - An STL 'replacement' for the FormatMessage API

4 Mar 2006

PJ Arends

1 alternative

A function that uses STL strings and streams in an effort to mimic and improve on the FormatMessage API.

VC6VC7VC7.1Win2KWinXPVS.NET2003STLDevIntermediate

A TCHAR style header file for STL strings and streams

11 Feb 2006

PJ Arends

Presents a header file that allows a single source file that uses STL to be built in either ANSI or Unicode, without any changes or lots of #ifdefs.

STL Split String

1 Feb 2006

Paul J. Weiss

A function that will split an input string based on a string delimiter.

VC6Win2KATLSTLDevIntermediate

lstring - A lightweight wrapper for std::string

3 Dec 2005

Roland Pibinger

Simplify string handling with a wrapper for std::string.

fix_str - An (Almost) Immutable String Class in C++

7 Nov 2005

Roland Pibinger

New style string class(es) for ASCII and UNICODE, single- and multi-threaded environments.

VC7.1VS.NET2003WindowsMFCATLDevIntermediate

CTextRender class

20 Oct 2005

darkoman

An article on an alternative for TextOut (ExtTextOut) function.

VC6DevIntermediate

Easily Load and Format Strings from the String Table

26 Sep 2005

Serge Wautier

Two classes that help you to easily load (and format) messages from the String table.

Fast splitting of CString objects

23 Sep 2005

rkaufman

Splitting CString objects is mostly easy, but can be tricky. I developed this function for using it with CSV files.

VC6VC7Win2KWinXPVisual-StudioMFCDevIntermediate

Text Formatter

19 Sep 2005

Doga Arinir

A class to block the size of a given text.

VC6Win2KWinXPMFCDevIntermediate

Allocate your dynamic strings on the stack

5 Jun 2005

Olivier Lombart

An article about stack-allocated dynamic strings in C++.

VC6VC7VC7.1VC8.0WindowsVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

FileSystem path string wrapper class

2 May 2005

Parko

A simple class to encapsulate a file system path for easy manipulation.

Tolerant string matching using the Levenshtein algorithm

29 Apr 2005

Andreas Muegge

A practical example how to use the Levenshtein algorithm for string matching

VC6VC7VC7.1VC8.0Win2KWinXPWin2003VS.NET2003eVC3.0eVC4.0

Literal string encryption as part of the build process

17 Mar 2005

C^hris L^osinger

CXR allows you to create encrypted strings at compile time.

VC6VC7Win2KWinXPMFCDevAdvanced

Ultimate String and String-List classes

5 Feb 2005

TomKat

String and String-List classes compatible with both ASCII and UNICODE strings.

VC7.1Win2KWinXPVS.NET2003DevIntermediate

Use wildcard to compare string and validate input

3 Feb 2005

DarkYoda M

This article describes how to use wildcard to make input validation in CEdit control or to compare string with wildcard.

VC6WinXPMFCDevIntermediate

Patricia and Huffman, Sitting in a Trie

27 Dec 2004

Michael Jaworski

Article demonstrates a text-based Patricia trie and adds new text-compression features.

VC6WinXPVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

Optimizing String-Manipulation Functions

26 Dec 2004

Peter Kankowski

Optimizing string-manipulation functions.

VC6WinXPCDevASMIntermediate

Simple string parsing in nested loops

14 Dec 2004

Hatem Mostafa

Fast string parsing in nested loops.

VC7Windows.NETVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

Non MFC and Non STL string class: EsString

25 Nov 2004

Vsevolod

Standalone refcounted string class.

Using UpdateResource to change a string resource

21 Sep 2004

Sashazur

Code for changing a string resource, that actually works!

VC6VC7VC7.1VC8.0Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaTabletPCVisual-Studio

More than strcmp(): similarity in strings

12 Sep 2004

Rui A. Rebelo

A function which returns the similarity between two strings (how much they're equal).

VC7VC7.1VS.NET2003WindowsWinMobileMobileDeveVCIntermediate

A Very Simple Parser

12 Apr 2004

Rafid K. Abdullah

An article describing how to parse simple mathematical expressions (containing only +, -, *, /, and numbers) and evaluate their values.

JavaJava SEDevIntermediate

Java Generic Code - Convert Array Contents to a String in a Generic Way

7 Apr 2004

Doron Barak

Presenting a generic way to convert Array contents to Strings

Fast Textual Data Processing using Hashed Strings

6 Mar 2004

cMoXIV

Managing a textual numbering system for hashing words into numbers

VC6VC7VC7.1Win2KWinXPWin2003DevIntermediate

PreParse XML using CString

4 Mar 2004

Chau Johnthan

An article on XML parsing using CString.

VC6VC7VC7.1VC8.0WinXPVisual-StudioATLWTLDevIntermediate

The XString Class

11 Dec 2003

AnOldGreenHorn

An extended string class for C++ programmers

VC6WindowsVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

CPathSplit

20 Aug 2003

Kochise

CString based path splitter.

VC6Win2KWinXPWin2003PocketPC-2002MFCDevIntermediate

Yet another CString replacement (only much more practical)

1 Jul 2003

soso_pub

MFC/non-MFC usage, UNICODE support, numerics operations support

XTrim - trim leading and trailing whitespace characters

20 May 2003

Hans Dietrich

XTrim implements _tcsltrim and _tcsrtrim - CRT-like functions to trim whitespace.

XMemString - Extended memory and string search functions

11 May 2003

Hans Dietrich

Extended string and memory search functions: memmem(), memimem(), memichr(), _tcsistr()

CPerlString - A Class to Utilise Perl String Functions

31 Aug 2002

Yap Chun Wei

A Class to Utilise Perl String Functions

VC6WindowsVisual-StudioWTLDevIntermediate

CStringW and CStringA

29 Jun 2002

Oskar Wieland

CStringW and CStringA for WTL

String Tokenizer Iterator Class

26 Jun 2002

Daniel Andersson

A string tokenizer iterator class that works with std::string

VC7.NET1.0Win2KWinXPVisual-StudioSTLDevBeginner

Simple CString Extension

12 Jun 2002

Marc Clifton

Simple extension for better substring functionality and numeric formatting

VC6VC7Win2KWinXPVisual-StudioMFCDevIntermediate

Yet another string parser

15 Mar 2002

Remon

Another class for extracting fields of string

String Parsing Class (supports quoted strings)

14 Mar 2002

John Simmons / outlaw programmer

Parse strings with specified delimiter and specified quote character

VC6Win2KWinXPVisual-StudioMFCDevBeginner

Creating a Unique String Using a UUID

12 Dec 2001

John Simmons / outlaw programmer

A small function to either accept or create a UUID* and return a CString

String Splitter

1 Nov 2001

Koundinya

User defined StringTokenizer

Win2KJavaJava SEDevBeginner

CTokenizer class

21 Oct 2001

Eddie Velasquez

A simple tokenizer class that can be used on CStrings

VC6Visual-StudioDevIntermediate

Class for quick string lookup

29 Sep 2001

Todd Jeffreys

Class that represents strings in a tier to enable faster lookups.

VC6Win2KVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

Sending and posting CString to windows via PostMessage, SendMessage

1 Sep 2001

Matt Gullett

A robust mechanism for sending CString objects to windows within the current process.

Class to check Strings for invalid characters

4 Nov 2000

Thomas Hauth

An MFC Class which offers you the abbility to check Strings for invalid characters

VC6Visual-StudioDevIntermediate

Non-MFC String Class for ATL

11 Aug 2000

Paul E. Bible

A Non-MFC String Class for use in ATL components

VC6ATLDevIntermediate

String Conversions

22 May 2000

Zoran M. Todorovic

Set of classes enabling UNICODE and ANSI string conversion.

CString Management

17 May 2000

Joseph M. Newcomer

Learn how to effectively use CStrings.

VC6Visual-StudioMFCDevBeginner

String Tokenizer Class (CTokenEx)

26 Jan 2000

Dan Madden

A very simple string tokenizer class.

VC6Visual-StudioMFCDevBeginner

Case-Insensitive String Replace

25 Jan 2000

Uwe Keim

Function to replace all occurences of a string within another, ignoring the case

Case-Insensitive String Search

1 Dec 1999

Ralph Walden

A function which doesn't require changing the case of the strings, and was also DBCS (double-byte character set) friendly.

VC6WinXPDevIntermediate

VC6Win2KWinXPVisual-StudioMFCATLWTLSTLDevBeginner

String - General,

The Complete Guide to C++ Strings, Part II - String Wrapper Classes

12 Oct 2002

Michael Dunn, Nish Sivakumar

A guide to the string wrapper classes provided by Visual C++ and class libraries

The Complete Guide to C++ Strings, Part I - Win32 Character Encodings

4 Oct 2002

Michael Dunn

A guide to the multitude of string types used in Windows.

VC6Win2KWinXPVisual-StudioDevBeginner

VS2008C++WindowsDevIntermediate

String - Regular Expressions

Quick Start for C++ TR1 Regular Expressions

26 Jun 2014

John D. Cook

This article answers some of the first questions that come up when using regular expressions in C++ TR1

Combined Regular Expression Search

1 Apr 2014

Farhad Alizadeh Noori

This article details the implementation of an efficient grouped regular expression searcher.

C#.NETArchitectDevDesignIntermediatePatterns

Regular Express Yourself using RegExpBuilder

26 Aug 2013

Rion Williams

This post is going to cover a new library called RegExpBuilder which aims to transform very nasty looking regular expressions into easily readable formats that can easily be built and understood.

C#JavascriptJavaPerl.NETBeginnerIntermediateAdvancedDart

Regex Logviewer

16 Jun 2013

Amit Bezalel

Using the power of regex to parse your logs

C#toolslog4netRegExParsingParserlogginglog

I don't like Regex...

17 Jan 2013

Guirec

This article will introduce you with a set of 3 simple extension methods that can help you getting rid of Regex in many situations

C#.NETArchitectDevBeginnerExtensionpatternRegExsyntaxstrings

RegEx Tester - Regular Expression Tester

22 May 2011

Pablo Osés

It aids you to develop and fully test your regular expression against a target text.

C#DevAll-Topics

A handy web utility for Regular Expressions

17 Nov 2009

Carl Johansen

Describes a free web-based utility for testing Regular Expressions and performing bulk text transformations.

C#.NETDevBeginnerIntermediate

Link Scanner

14 Oct 2009

Daniel Killyevo

Gets all links that a page contains.

.NET2.0C#DevBeginner

RegexTester

20 Aug 2009

PIEBALDconsult

Presenting a test bed for .NET Regular Expressions

.NET2.0C#DevBeginner

Searching, Modifying, and Encoding Text

1 Jul 2009

logicchild

An article that explains Regular Expressions

C#1.0C#2.0C#3.0C#Intermediate

Flexible text format support using Regular Expressions

1 Jul 2009

spotofleopard

Regular Expressions enable your application to parse text files of customized formats.

C#XML.NETDevBeginner

Lost and Found Identity Proper Case Format Provider (IFormatProvider implementation)

24 Jun 2009

kdmitry

Provides administrators with a way to re-format biographical data from case-insensitive data-sources.

C#ASP.NETSQL-ServerArchitectDevBeginnerIntermediatePowerShellWinForm

What is the best way to create Regular Expressions?

26 Sep 2008

Alex Perepletov

A convenient way to document the intent of each part of a regex.

C#1.0C#2.0C#3.0.NETDevIntermediate

Regular Expressions Syntax Highlighting

7 Sep 2008

Stanislav Kniazev

Easy to use syntax highlighting class

C#DevIntermediate

A Naive String Comparer

6 May 2008

Pete O'Hanlon

A class to perform a "naive" comparison of two chunks of text to see if they look to be the same.

C#2.0C#3.0C#ASP.NETBeginner

In-place file regex replacement

31 Jan 2008

Mike McCabe

A function to apply a regex replacement to a file.

.NET2.0VS.NET2003VS2005C#1.0C#2.0WindowsHTMLDevIntermediateWinForm

Grabbing Information from Web Pages using Regular Expressions

19 Jun 2007

qazro

The article describes how to automate navigation through Web pages, i.e. send parameters and grab the required information automatically

Using Regular Expression for Parsing

16 Mar 2007

wjhu111

Derived currently supports RTF and HTML format

WinXPVS2005C#2.0.NETDevIntermediate

Create Regex Objects using a Kind of "meta-variables" - Quicker and Easier

10 Jan 2007

Eugene Mirotin (Guard)

This article describes a class VarRegex allowing you to reuse parts of regular expressions

.NET2.0VS2005C#2.0WindowsDevQAIntermediate

.NET RegEx Test

20 Oct 2006

kurt.griffiths

Handy Regex test utility for .NET helps you get the right expression to use in your code

Using Regular Expressions in MFC

18 Jun 2006

Sam NG

CATLRegExp - A Visual C++ built-in regular expression.

VC7Win2KVisual-StudioMFCATLDevIntermediate

Regular Expressions Meta Characters Usage with Examples

26 Apr 2006

Anil Choudary

Regular Expressions Usage with Examples

.NET1.1VS.NET2003C#WindowsDevQABeginnerWinForm

Regular Expression Tester

8 Sep 2005

Christopher Scholten

A simple Regular Expression Tester which allows one string to be tested against a standard regular expression, with feedback on the result in both text and graphical format as either the regular expression or the test string are typed.

Wildcard string compare (globbing)

15 Feb 2005

Jack Handy

Matches a string against a wildcard string such as "*.*" or "bl?h.*" etc. This is good for file globbing or to match hostmasks.

VC6Win2KVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

Henry Spencer's Regexp Engine Revisited

2 Jul 2003

Sunspot

A small, Unicode-aware regular expression engine based on Henry Spencer's early work

VC6VC7VC7.1Win2KWinXPWin2003MFCWTLSTLDev

Adding Regular Expressions to Your App with Regex++

17 Jun 2002

perlmunger

A tutorial to demonstrate adding regular expressions to your project using Regex++ from boost.org.

VC6VC7Win2KMFCDevIntermediate

Use regular expression in your C++ program

25 Jan 2001

Sherwood Hu

how to use the Microsoft regular expression object in your C++ program

VC6Win2KVisual-StudioMFCATLDevIntermediate

An Introduction to Regular Expressions

25 Jan 2001

Uwe Keim

Describes the theory behind regular expressions (RE) as well as the practical usage.

Win2KC++Visual-StudioDevBeginner

C#Windows.NETVisual-StudioHTMLDevIntermediate

Strings

Converting PDF to Text in C#

10 Mar 2014

Dan Letecky

1 alternative

Parsing PDF files in .NET using PDFBox and IKVM.NET (managed code).

Converting PDF to Text in C#

22 Oct 2012

hatman70

This is an alternative for "Converting PDF to Text in C#"

C#Windows.NETVisual-StudioHTMLDevIntermediate

Secure Strings

8 Nov 2011

AbhishekGoenka

Use of SecureString class in .NET

Windows.NET

Custom Formatting in .NET - Enhancing String.Format to all new levels!

1 Dec 2010

Scott Rippey

A string template method that allows you to fill a string with data. Easy to use, fast, extensible, and extremely powerful! Uses Reflection, Conditional Formatting, iterating through Arrays, and more!

.NET2.0VS.NET2003VS2005.NET3.0VB7.xVB8.0VB9.0.NET3.5VS2008Dev

Rive

28 Mar 2010

PIEBALDconsult

An improved string split method.

.NET3.5C#DevIntermediate

WordNet-based semantic similarity measurement

8 Feb 2010

Troy Simpson, Thanh Dao

Capturing the semantic similarity between two short sentences based on the WordNet dictionary.

C#Windows.NETDevIntermediate

Splitting a Line of Comma-Separated Text

11 Sep 2009

pat daburu

A quick and simple method for splitting up the lines in your .csv file.

UTF-8 With C++ in a Portable Way

8 Jul 2009

Nemanja Trifunovic

A simple, portable, and lightweight generic library for handling UTF-8 encoded strings.

.NET2.0SQL-server-2005VS2005C#2.0SQLWindowsDBADevIntermediate

A T-SQL Regular Expression Library for SQL Server 2005

13 Dec 2008

Steve Abraham

This article shows the reader how to construct a library of scalar and table valued functions for SQL Server 2005 to perform regular expression analysis.

UTF16 to UTF8 to UTF16 simple CString based conversion

16 May 2008

John Paul Pirau

Use CString to convert betwen UTF8 and UTF16.

VC7VC7.1VC8.0WinXPWin2003VistaC++WindowsWinMobileMFC

Faster String Building

30 Mar 2008

andrevdcolff

An alternative to native string and StringBuilder options

C#1.0C#2.0C#3.0C#

Using ANSI Colors within .NET

28 Mar 2008

zenox

This article will teach you how to use ANSI colors using .NET

C#.NETBeginner

NRTFTree - A class library for RTF processing in C#

7 Sep 2007

sgoliver

Class library to manage RTF files.

.NET1.1Win2KWinXPVS.NET2003C#DevIntermediate

Removing or replacing non-printable Unicode characters

16 Mar 2007

Eric Lynch

A class for removing or replacing non-printable Unicode characters.

.NET1.1C#WindowsDevIntermediate

Repair Broken Text

7 Mar 2007

radumi

An article to demonstrate how to repair broken text.

.NET1.1WinXPVS.NET2003C#DevIntermediate

Processing Command Line Arguments

27 Dec 2006

salysle

This article describes an approach to processing multiple command line arguments.

.NET2.0VS2005C#WindowsDevIntermediate

A universal sentence checking tool

31 Oct 2006

Dominique Bijnens

A tool to quickly verify a sentence's correctness.

.NET1.1.NET2.0Win2KWinXPVS.NET2003VS2005C#DevIntermediate

CommandLineHelper class to launch console applications and capture their output

23 Oct 2006

Andrew Tweddle

Runs a console application and returns its output as a string. Useful for writing object-oriented wrappers around command line utilities, such as Subversion's svn utility.

.NET2.0C#2.0WindowsVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

WTL CString Class Implemented with the Standard C++ Library

28 Sep 2006

Alain Rist

Plug-in CodeProject's CStdString as WTL::CString and get the WTL CString support with a Standard C++ Library implementation.

VC6VC7VC7.1VC8.0Win2KWinXPWin2003VS.NET2003VS2005eVC4.0

Parsing event log(*.evt) file

23 Aug 2006

J a a n s

An article on parsing/opening event log files(*.evt) using c#

.NET2.0Win2KWinXPWin2003VS2005C#2.0DevIntermediate

Word Search Engine

1 May 2006

mohsen ahmadian

This article describes a new Word Search Engine for your application or website.

.NET2.0VS2005C#WindowsDevIntermediate

Karmencita: an object query language for .NET

23 Mar 2006

Marius Gheorghe

Learn more about Karmencita, an object query language for .NET.

.NET2.0VS2005C#WindowsDevIntermediate

XML Querying, Text Streaming, Debug Capture, and LDAP

17 Jan 2006

Werner.Reyneke

Library containing functions for XML Querying, Text Streaming, Debug Capture and LDAP.

C#XMLWindows.NETVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

Conditional Replacement

20 Sep 2005

Anthony Johnston

Templating for text based formats.

.NET1.1VS.NET2003C#WindowsDevIntermediate

A word-wise HTML text compare and merge engine

27 Aug 2005

Hongwei Shen

A C# .NET implemntation of HTML text compare and merge engine based on a similar algorithm as the Unix diff.

Gios WORD .NET Library (using RTF specification)

8 Aug 2005

Paolo Gios

A .NET library for generating Word documents (.DOC) using the RTF (Rich Text Format) specification.

.NET1.1VS.NET2003C#WindowsDevIntermediate

Fastest C# Case Insenstive String Replace

4 Jul 2005

Huisheng Chen

Find a fast way to replace case insenstive string.

.NET1.1Win2KWin2003VistaVS.NET2003C#DevIntermediate

String Helpers

15 Jun 2005

Marc Clifton

A small set of helper methods for string manipulation.

StringConvertor : A convertor class for managed-unmanaged string conversions that handles memory de-allocations

15 May 2005

Nish Sivakumar

A convertor class for managed-unmanaged string conversions that handles memory de-allocations. Caller need not worry about freeing unmanaged memory allocations.

VS2005C++C++/CLIWindows.NETDevIntermediate

RTools.Util - C# Library

26 Oct 2004

Ryan Seghers

A C# Library for tokenizing, argument parsing, and file finding.

.NET1.0C#WindowsDevIntermediate

Adding line numbers to text

24 Jun 2004

Ken Mackenzie

How to easily add line numbers to source code or text.

.NET1.0.NET1.1.NET2.0Win2KWinXPWin2003VS.NET2003C#DevIntermediate

String Vs StringBuilder (C#)

1 May 2004

Chester Ragel

An article on performance of String Vs StringBuilder and better places where each can be used

.NET1.0.NET1.1Win2KWinXPWin2003VS.NET2003C#DevIntermediate

NetSpell - Spell Checker for .NET

21 Oct 2003

Paul Welter

The NetSpell project is a spell checking engine written entirely in managed C# .NET code.

.NET1.0.NET1.1Win2KWinXPWin2003C#VBASP.NETVisual-StudioDev

String Splitter

9 Mar 2003

Wee Ding

A user defined String Tokenizer (Java).

JavaJava SEDevIntermediate

VC6VC7Win2KWinXPCDevIntermediate

String - Text Conversion

Convert Integers to Their Textual Description

6 May 2014

Jeremy Falcon

Convert an integer to its textual description

Extremely Efficient Type-safe printf Library

17 Aug 2011

Alexander Bessonov

Introduces a fast and type-safe parameter rendering library (type-safe printf)

C++WindowsDevAdvancedVS2010

Enhanced String Handling II

16 Dec 2010

Avi Farah

Overcoming limitations of: Enhanced String Handling

.NET3.5C#.NETDevBeginnerIntermediateAll-TopicsEncryptionDecryptionApplication

String conversions made easy

4 Dec 2010

Elmar de Groot

Convert strings to their strong typed counterpart with String.ConvertTo().

C#3.0.NETDevIntermediateC#4.0

Converting RTF to HTML in VB.NET the Easy Way

14 Jan 2010

Hanleyk1

A quick and easy solution to produce excellent HTML from RTF without parsing

VB.NETDevIntermediate

North American Phone Number Format Provider (iFormatProvider Implementation)

15 Jun 2009

kdmitry

Implementation of IFormatProvider interface allowing to format "dirty-data" phone numbers into uniformed string

C#1.0C#2.0C#3.0C#DevDesignBeginnerIntermediateSysAdmin

Format Currency Using .NET Code Vs. Legacy VB6 Code

31 Mar 2009

James Mouchett

To format a string into currency without the dependency of VB6

.NET1.0.NET1.1.NET2.0.NET3.0VB7.xVB8.0VB9.0VB6.NET3.5VB

A class that converts string data to any format

19 Aug 2007

Le Sourcier

Converts a string to any format you want!!!

VC6WindowsVisual-StudioDevBeginner

Longitude-Latitude String Parser and Formatter

21 Sep 2006

Jeff Bogan

A class for longitude and latitude values so as to parse the string to render a double, or format a double into a string.

VC6VC7VC7.1VC8.0Win2KWinXPVS.NET2003VS2005DevIntermediate

BinaryConverter

13 Jun 2006

Polymorpher

Convert ASCII text to binary and back.

Win2KWinXPWin2003VS.NET2003VB.NETDevBeginner

CString To char Conversion method (Warning Free)

12 Oct 2005

ImmelmanQ

An article on converting CStrings to chars without data loss.

VC6VC7WinXPVisual-StudioMFCDevIntermediate

Quick code page converter

19 Jun 2004

valdok

A simple tool that converts ANSI string to Unicode using a code page you select.

VC6VC7VC7.1Win2KWinXPWin2003VS.NET2003DevIntermediate

Converting numeric types to strings and strings to numeric types

23 Feb 2004

Eloff

Benchmarks on various conversion technqiues, commentary, and some custom conversion functions.

UTF-8 Encoding and Decoding

22 Oct 2003

Robert Pittenger, MCPD-EAD

How to Encode and Decode Text to/from UTF-8

VC6Win2KWinXPWin2003MFCDevIntermediate

Guide to BSTR and C String Conversions

21 Aug 2003

Robert Pittenger, MCPD-EAD

An article on converting to/from C strings and various VB BSTR string types

VC6VC7VC7.1Win2KWinXPWin2003MFCDevIntermediate

Float and datetime to Vietnamese textual

4 Aug 2002

Nguyen Luong Son

A DLL to convert Float and datetime to Vietnamese textual string

VC6VC7Win2KWinXPMFCDevIntermediate

XFormatNumber - A function to format numbers with commas

25 Jun 2002

Hans Dietrich

An easy-to-use function that provides locale-correct comma-formatting of numbers

VC6VC7Win2KWinXPMFCDevIntermediate

URLEncode

25 Jun 2001

Ryszard Krakowiak

Convert string using URLEncode method

VC6Win2KMFCDevBeginner

AMMimeUtils

13 Jun 2001

Anders Molin

An article on how to decode Base64 and Quoted-Printable text without using MFC.

Convert a "Hex String" to an Integer

15 Jan 2001

Anders Molin

Convert a string containing a hex value to an integer

IntermediatePythonAlgorithmsTextsearchPython2.7stringsfuzzy

String - Text Search and Replace

Text Processing -1 : Fuzzy String Matching or Searching

23 May 2014

Psycho_Coder

Fuzzy String matching algorithms for Spell correction and string similarity matching using Edit Distance algortihms.

Fast Token Replacement in C#

8 Sep 2013

Bojan Antolovic

A class similar to StringBuilder with a faster Replace function.

.NETDevIntermediateC#4.0

A Multiple Substring Search Class: CIVStringSet

25 Apr 2010

Scot Brennecke

A string array class using MFC or STL that performs very fast multiple string searches

WindowsMFCSTLDevIntermediateVC9.0

Searching on Text Files

15 Jul 2008

julyhoping

This program is to search for words on text files.

VC6VC7VC7.1VC8.0WindowsDevBeginner

A Tiny Variable String Splitter

25 Jan 2008

mi-chi

Tokenize and access string contents using a format mask

VC6VC7VC7.1VC8.0C++C++/CLIC

String Replace and File Handling library

8 Jan 2008

Sivastyle

Library which contains code for replacing some of the Text in files based on conditions and handling the files by reading and writing strings from or to the file by recursively browsing the folder.

.NET2.0WinXPVistaVS2005C#2.0DevIntermediate

AutoText V2.2: A component for word-complete as the user is typing

26 Nov 2007

Windmiller

A component that will find similar words in a lexicon as the user is writing on to make it easy to word-complete for the user. For use in Win32 graphical or console applications.

.NET1.0.NET1.1.NET2.0Win2KWinXPWin2003VS.NET2003C#1.0C#2.0.NET3.0

Patricia Trie Template Class

11 Jul 2007

Radu Gruian

This article introduces a template class-based approach to construct and query Patricia tries. The article includes source code and a demo application.

VC6Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaTabletPCEmbeddedDevIntermediate

Find and Replace with Regular Expressions

6 Apr 2007

Kishore Ramakrishnan

An article on using regular expressions to implement Find and Replace functionality

VC6Win2KWinXPWin2003MFCDevIntermediate

XTokenString - a function to extract tokens from a string

4 Aug 2005

Hans Dietrich

XTokenString extracts tokens from a string, and returns a CStringArray that contains tokens. A token is defined by specified delimiters; double-quotes may optionally group multiple words into a single token, and an option is provided for handling escaped characters.

CleanR - Text file string search and replace engine.

1 Jul 2003

Kamal Shankar

An engine to allow you to search for strings in text files and replace them.