String - General			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
CString-clone Using Standard C++ Updated: 4 Aug 2004 A Drop-In replacement for CString that builds on the Standard C++ Library's basic_string template VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	Joe O'Leary	4.67
A Variable-based String Parser Updated: 27 Feb 2007 An article on a tool which unifies a string with a template consisting of variables and constants NT4, C++, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Dileepa Jayathilaka	4.67
FormatString - smart string formatting - Unedited Updated: 19 Feb 2007 Smart string formatting and other string utilities VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS2005, VS6, Windows, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Ivo Beltchev	4.61
CString Management Updated: 17 May 2000 Learn how to effectively use CStrings. VC6, NT4, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Joseph M. Newcomer	4.61
UTF-8 With C++ in a Portable Way Updated: 8 Sep 2006 A simple, portable, and lightweight generic library for handling UTF-8 encoded strings. C++, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Nemanja Trifunovic	4.58
XSearch - a class that implements a search engine-style advanced search Updated: 16 May 2007 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. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Hans Dietrich	4.58
Plural forms - Unedited Updated: 15 Apr 2008 Spelling messages like "5 file(s) found" correctly in any language. C++, C	Peter Kankowski	4.55
String Conversions Updated: 22 May 2000 Set of classes enabling UNICODE and ANSI string conversion. VC6, NT4, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Zoran M. Todorovic	4.53
MakeMessage - An STL 'replacement' for the FormatMessage API Updated: 4 Mar 2006 A function that uses STL strings and streams in an effort to mimic and improve on the FormatMessage API. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	PJ Arends	4.51
Sending and posting CString to windows via PostMessage, SendMessage Updated: 1 Sep 2001 A robust mechanism for sending CString objects to windows within the current process. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Matt Gullett	4.50
Implement Phonetic ("Sounds-like") Name Searches with Double Metaphone Part I: Introduction & C++ Implementation Updated: 19 Mar 2007 Introduces the Double Metaphone algorithm for phonetic comparison of proper names, and provides a practical C++ implementation for use in the reader's projects. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Advanced	Adam Nelson	4.50
Non-MFC String Class for ATL Updated: 11 Aug 2000 A Non-MFC String Class for use in ATL components VC6, NT4, VS6, ATL, Dev, Intermediate	Paul E. Bible	4.49
Using UpdateResource to change a string resource Updated: 21 Sep 2004 Code for changing a string resource, that actually works! VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, TabletPC, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Sashazur	4.49
PowerShell Script for Reviewing Text Shown to Users Updated: 11 Apr 2008 A script for extracting string literals from source code for review ASP.NET, Windows, Beginner	John D. Cook	4.44
Literal string encryption as part of the build process Updated: 17 Mar 2005 CXR allows you to create encrypted strings at compile time. VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Advanced	C^hris L^osinger	4.44
A TCHAR style header file for STL strings and streams Updated: 11 Feb 2006 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. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS6, STL, Dev, Intermediate	PJ Arends	4.42
Implement Phonetic ("Sounds-like") Name Searches with Double Metaphone Part VI: Other Methods & Additional Resources Updated: 19 Mar 2007 Surveys other phonetic matching techniques, and presents additional resources on the subject. VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Visual Studio, Dev, Advanced	Adam Nelson	4.39
fix_str - An (Almost) Immutable String Class in C++ Updated: 7 Nov 2005 New style string class(es) for ASCII and UNICODE, single- and multi-threaded environments. VC6, VS6, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Roland Pibinger	4.38
Easily Load and Format Strings from the String Table Updated: 26 Sep 2005 Two classes that help you to easily load (and format) messages from the String table. VC7.1, VS.NET2003, Windows, MFC, ATL, Dev, Intermediate	Serge Wautier	4.37
XString - non-MFC non-STL string functions - Unedited Updated: 7 Aug 2007 XString offers functions for remove, replace, trim, and case-insensitive search that are not included in the CRT. VC6, VC8.0, VS2005, VS6, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Hans Dietrich	4.36
Case-Insensitive String Search Updated: 1 Dec 1999 A function which doesn't require changing the case of the strings, and was also DBCS (double-byte character set) friendly. VC6, NT4, WinXP, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	Ralph Walden	4.33
Case-Insensitive String Replace Updated: 25 Jan 2000 function to replace all occurences of a string within another, ignoring the case. VC6, NT4, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Uwe Keim	4.30
Non MFC and Non STL string class: EsString Updated: 25 Nov 2004 Standalone refcounted string class. VC7, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Vsevolod	4.29
PreParse XML using CString Updated: 4 Mar 2004 An article on XML parsing using CString. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, NT4, WinXP, Visual Studio, ATL, WTL, Dev, Intermediate	Chau Johnthan	4.29
More than strcmp(): similarity in strings Updated: 12 Sep 2004 A function which returns the similarity between two strings (how much they're equal). VC7, VC7.1, VS.NET2003, Windows, WinCE, Mobile, Dev, eVC, Intermediate	Rui A. Rebelo	4.28
Natural Sort Comparer - Unedited Updated: 28 Dec 2007 An implementation of a Natural Sort Comparer C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#	Justin.Jones	4.27
Extending CStringArray Updated: 11 Dec 2007 An extended CStringArray class C++, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Anders Eriksson	4.26
XTrim - trim leading and trailing whitespace characters Updated: 20 May 2003 XTrim implements _tcsltrim and _tcsrtrim - CRT-like functions to trim whitespace. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	Hans Dietrich	4.24
Static String List Manager Updated: 20 Sep 2001 A reusable component to manage static string lists in your programs VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, ATL, Dev, Beginner	Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳	4.20
CPerlString - A Class to Utilise Perl String Functions Updated: 31 Aug 2002 A Class to Utilise Perl String Functions VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Yap Chun Wei	4.18
Patricia and Huffman, Sitting in a Trie Updated: 27 Dec 2004 Article demonstrates a text-based Patricia trie and adds new text-compression features. VC6, WinXP, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Michael Jaworski	4.13
CStringW and CStringA Updated: 29 Jun 2002 CStringW and CStringA for WTL VC6, Windows, Visual Studio, WTL, Dev, Intermediate	Oskar Wieland	4.13
String Tokenizer Class (CTokenEx) Updated: 26 Jan 2000 A very simple string tokenizer class. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Dan Madden	4.10
Parsing command line arguments - Unedited Updated: 3 May 2008 CommandLineParser library provides simple way to define command line arguments and parse them in your application C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#, Windows, .NET, Dev, Beginner	trupik	4.07
Searching and replacing strings in a text file Updated: 30 Oct 2001 A simple Java toy program for searching and replacing strings in a text file. VC6, NT4, Win2K, Java, Java, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳	4.03
CTextRender class Updated: 20 Oct 2005 An article on an alternative for TextOut (ExtTextOut) function. VC6, NT4, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	darkoman	4.02
Yet another CString replacement (only much more practical) Updated: 1 Jul 2003 MFC/non-MFC usage, UNICODE support, numerics operations support VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	soso_pub	4.00
lstring - A lightweight wrapper for std::string Updated: 4 Dec 2005 Simplify string handling with a wrapper for std::string. C++, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Roland Pibinger	3.99
CTokenizer class Updated: 21 Oct 2001 A simple tokenizer class that can be used on CStrings VC6, CE 2.11, NT4, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Eddie Velasquez	3.98
Fast Textual Data Processing using Hashed Strings Updated: 6 Mar 2004 Managing a textual numbering system for hashing words into numbers VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	Mohammed Hossny	3.92
Use wildcard to compare string and validate input Updated: 3 Feb 2005 This article describes how to use wildcard to make input validation in CEdit control or to compare string with wildcard. VC6, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	DarkYoda M	3.89
Simple string parsing in nested loops Updated: 14 Dec 2004 Fast string parsing in nested loops. C++, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Hatem Mostafa	3.88
XMemString - Extended memory and string search functions Updated: 11 May 2003 Extended string and memory search functions: memmem(), memimem(), memichr(), _tcsistr() VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	Hans Dietrich	3.86
Keeping It Clean - String Function Wrappers for VS2005 Updated: 17 Nov 2006 A technique for making stdio functions compile clean regardless of the Microsoft compiler used VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS2005, VS6, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	John Simmons / outlaw programmer	3.83
Simple CString Extension Updated: 12 Jun 2002 Simple extension for better substring functionality and numeric formatting VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Marc Clifton	3.81
String Parsing Class (supports quoted strings) Updated: 14 Mar 2002 Parse strings with specified delimiter and specified quote character VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	John Simmons / outlaw programmer	3.80
STL Split String Updated: 1 Feb 2006 A function that will split an input string based on a string delimiter. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, ATL, STL, Dev, Intermediate	Paul J. Weiss	3.79
String Tokenizer Iterator Class Updated: 26 Jun 2002 A string tokenizer iterator class that works with std::string VC7, .NET 1.0, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, STL, Dev, Beginner	Daniel Andersson	3.69
A Very Simple Parser Updated: 12 Apr 2004 An article describing how to parse simple mathematical expressions (containing only +, -, *, /, and numbers) and evaluate their values. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	ThePromather	3.60
Optimizing String-Manipulation Functions Updated: 26 Dec 2004 Optimizing string-manipulation functions. VC6, WinXP, VS6, C, Dev, ASM, Intermediate	Peter Kankowski	3.54
Class to check Strings for invalid characters Updated: 4 Nov 2000 An MFC Class which offers you the abbility to check Strings for invalid characters VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Thomas Hauth	3.50
Windows ATOM API Wrapper - Unedited Updated: 12 May 2007 Wrapper classes for all of the Windows ATOM API functions, both Local and Global. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, CE 2.10, CE 2.11, CE 3.0, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS2005, VS6, CE .NET 4.0, CE .NET 4.1, CE .NET 4.2, Dev, Intermediate	David 'dex' Schwartz	3.46
A Lite-Memory Dictionary Updated: 10 Mar 2007 An article on the implementation of a dictionary where everything is kept in the disk as a B-Tree. VC6, NT4, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Dileepa Jayathilaka	3.40
Creating a Unique String Using a UUID Updated: 12 Dec 2001 A small function to either accept or create a UUID* and return a CString VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Beginner	John Simmons / outlaw programmer	3.35
A C++ StringBuilder Class Updated: 14 Sep 2007 An atricle introducing a StringBuilder class written in C++ C++, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Omer Tripp	3.33
Adding some MFC functionality to std::string Updated: 12 Mar 2003 Implementing some common CString functions using std::string VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, STL, Dev, Intermediate	Jerry Evans	3.29
Class for quick string lookup Updated: 29 Sep 2001 Class that represents strings in a tier to enable faster lookups. VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Todd Jeffreys	3.25
Convert between std::string and std::wstring, UTF-8 and UTF-16 - Unedited Updated: 20 May 2007 How to convert safely STL strings between Unicode formats C++, Windows, Visual Studio, STL, Dev, Beginner	rh_	3.22
Yet another string parser Updated: 15 Mar 2002 Another class for extracting fields of string VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	Remon	3.19
String Format Library Updated: 23 Apr 2008 Another type-safe alternative to Boost's string format library. VC6, VC7.1, VC8.0, C, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Wong Shao Voon	3.11
How to Format a String - Unedited Updated: 9 Aug 2006 This article illustrates how to format a std::string using a variable argument list similar to CString's Format. C++, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Beginner	Nitron	3.10
Text Formatter Updated: 19 Sep 2005 A class to block the size of a given text. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Doga Arinir	3.05
String Splitter - Unedited Updated: 1 Nov 2001 User defined StringTokenizer NT4, Win2K, Java, Java, Dev, Beginner	Koundinya	3.05
KString class, a non MFC string class Updated: 16 Oct 2006 KString class, a non MFC string class. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	H adi Dayvary	3.01
The XString Class Updated: 11 Dec 2003 An extended string class for C++ programmers VC6, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Vijay Mathew Pandyalakal	2.97
CPathSplit Updated: 20 Aug 2003 CString based path splitter. VC6, CE 2.11, CE 3.0, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, WinMobile2002, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Kochise	2.89
FileSystem path string wrapper class Updated: 2 May 2005 A simple class to encapsulate a file system path for easy manipulation. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Parko	2.75
Useful CString manipulation functions - Unedited Updated: 31 Jan 2007 A set of functions to perform the tasks that CString fails to address properly VC8.0, VS2005, Windows, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Denis Gourjii	2.67
Allocate your dynamic strings on the stack Updated: 5 Jun 2005 An article about stack-allocated dynamic strings in C++. VC6, VS6, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Olivier Lombart	2.50
Easy string compression and encryption - Unedited Updated: 1 Jul 2008 Class module to easily de-/compress and en-/decrypt big strings .NET 2.0, VS2005, .NET 3.0, VB 8.0, VB 9.0, .NET 3.5, VB, ASP.NET, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced	BTDex	2.50
Ultimate String and String-List classes Updated: 5 Feb 2005 String and String-List classes compatible with both ASCII and UNICODE strings. VC7.1, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2003, Dev, Intermediate	TomKat	2.45
Fast splitting of CString objects Updated: 23 Sep 2005 Splitting CString objects is mostly easy, but can be tricky. I developed this function for using it with CSV files. VC6, VC7, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	rkaufman	2.34
String Parser Class with Field Validation and Exception Handling Updated: 16 Dec 2002 Another class for extracting fields of string + field validation + exception Handling VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Ali Khanlarkhani	2.18
Tolerant string matching using the Levenshtein algorithm Updated: 29 Apr 2005 A practical example how to use the Levenshtein algorithm for string matching VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, eVC 3.0, eVC 4.0, WinCE, Mobile, Dev, Intermediate	Andreas Muegge	2.03
*String wildcard matching ( and ?)** - Unedited Updated: 22 Jul 2007 A simple function to perform wildcard ( * ? ) string matching. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS2005, VS6, C, Dev, Intermediate	M Shahid Shafiq	1.79
Revise - Unedited Updated: 9 Jul 2008 Revise is a command line text editing tool VS2008, C++, Windows, Win32, Visual Studio, Dev, Beginner	Samjiman	1.33

String - General,			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
The Complete Guide to C++ Strings, Part I - Win32 Character Encodings Updated: 4 Oct 2002 A guide to the multitude of string types used in Windows. VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, Dev, Beginner	Michael Dunn	4.84
The Complete Guide to C++ Strings, Part II - String Wrapper Classes Updated: 12 Oct 2002 A guide to the string wrapper classes provided by Visual C++ and class libraries VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, ATL, WTL, STL, Dev, Beginner	Michael Dunn, Nishant Sivakumar	4.84

String - Regular Expressions			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
Using Regular Expressions in MFC Updated: 18 Jun 2006 CATLRegExp - A Visual C++ built-in regular expression. VC7, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, ATL, Dev, Intermediate	Sam NG	4.59
Wildcard string compare (globbing) Updated: 15 Feb 2005 Matches a string against a wildcard string such as "." or "bl?h.*" etc. This is good for file globbing or to match hostmasks. VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Jack Handy	4.50
RegEx Tester - Regular Expression Tester - Unedited Updated: 8 Mar 2008 It aids you to develop and fully test your regular expression against a target text. .NET 2.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, VS2005, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#, Windows, .NET, Win32, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate, Advanced	BucanerO_Slacker	4.50
Adding Regular Expressions to Your App with Regex++ Updated: 17 Jun 2002 A tutorial to demonstrate adding regular expressions to your project using Regex++ from boost.org. VC6, VC7, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	perlmunger	4.46
An Introduction to Regular Expressions Updated: 25 Jan 2001 Describes the theory behind regular expressions (RE) as well as the practical usage. NT4, Win2K, C++, Visual Studio, Dev, Beginner	Uwe Keim	4.39
A Naive String Comparer - Unedited Updated: 6 May 2008 A class to perform a "naive" comparison of two chunks of text to see if they look to be the same. C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#, ASP.NET, Beginner	Pete O'Hanlon	4.17
Henry Spencer's Regexp Engine Revisited Updated: 2 Jul 2003 A small, Unicode-aware regular expression engine based on Henry Spencer's early work VC6, VC7, VC7.1, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, WTL, STL, Dev, Intermediate	Sunspot	4.07
Use regular expression in your C++ program Updated: 25 Jan 2001 how to use the Microsoft regular expression object in your C++ program VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, ATL, Dev, Intermediate	Sherwood Hu	3.39
Quick Start for C++ TR1 Regular Expressions Updated: 23 May 2008 This article answers some of the first questions that come up when using regular expressions in C++ TR1 VS2008, C++, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	John D. Cook	3.23

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Title / Updated	Author	Score
WordNet-based semantic similarity measurement Updated: 1 Oct 2005 Capturing the semantic similarity between two short sentences based on WordNet dictionary. C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Troy Simpson, Thanh Dao	4.79
NetSpell - Spell Checker for .NET Updated: 21 Oct 2003 The NetSpell project is a spell checking engine written entirely in managed C# .NET code. .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, C#, VB, ASP.NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Paul Welter	4.73
Removing or replacing non-printable Unicode characters Updated: 16 Mar 2007 A class for removing or replacing non-printable Unicode characters. .NET 1.1, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Eric Lynch	4.71
A T-SQL Regular Expression Library for SQL Server 2005 Updated: 20 Jul 2007 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. .NET 2.0, SQL 2005, VS2005, C# 2.0, SQL, Windows, DBA, Dev, Intermediate	Steve Abraham	4.70
Gios WORD .NET Library (using RTF specification) Updated: 8 Aug 2005 A .NET library for generating Word documents (.DOC) using the RTF (Rich Text Format) specification. .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Paolo Gios	4.65
Converting PDF to Text in C# Updated: 12 Dec 2005

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