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Capitalizing a string using C#

  By Yaakov Ellis | April 12, 2007 - 19:13 | c#, Code
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I was in need of a quick way to capitalize all of the words in a string (and though to check with Google before writing my own implementation). Here is what I found:

  1. This one is built-in to .Net, but can be slow at times (and some people do not like the way that it handles capitalizations of Unicode strings)
System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.ToTitleCase(value);
  1. Based on Regular Expressions (2 examples found here)
  2. Some other home-baked implementations, mostly scanning through the string for whitespace, and capitalizing new words as they come up.

Am I missing anything?

Handy .net Regex app

  By Yaakov Ellis | May 5, 2005 - 10:44 | Uncategorized
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As I am learning more about regular expressions and I want to use some in my code, I find myself in a bit of a quandry – how can I try out the regular expression that I am using to see if it does what I need it to do (with the .net flavor of Regex).

I found this very useful application (download here). It is a C# demo program for using regular expressions with the .Net framework. Source code is included.

The site also has a good .Net and general Regex reference.

baregrep

  By Yaakov Ellis | May 3, 2005 - 13:11 | Uncategorized
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Found this nifty tool to perform regular expression searches on file (and I didn’t want to pay $150 for PowerGREP). Google helped me out and led the way to baregrep. Works very fast, easy to use interface, yada yada. You can pay them $25 to get rid of the splash screen, or just use it for free. They also have a good one-page regular expression reference, in case you are in need of a little brush-up.

Update: One shortcoming that I have found is that it doesn’t handle Unicode well. The original reason why I needed this tool was so that I could generate a script from Sql Server of all of my Stored Procedures for a certain project, and then search the script for certain text. I find that in order to do this, after I have first generated the script I then need to go and save it again as ANSI (it was created in unicode). Oh well. I guess I can’t really complain too much, given the price that I paid to obtain the software.