Format Paragraph in C#

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I have paragraph, copy to textbox:

----------------------------------------------------------------
1. The <title> element 50m 45s
defines a title in the browser toolbar 15m 20s
provides a title for the page when it is added to favorites 15m 10s
displays a title for the page in search-engine results 20m 15s
2. CSS can be added to HTML in the following ways 21m 40s
Inline - using the style attribute in HTML elements 5m 10s
Internal - using the <style> element in the <head> section 10m 3s
External - using an external CSS file 6m 27s
----------------------------------------------------------------

I want format this paragraph with C#, it will delete all time at end of every title row. Then it insert every tag html, when i click button, it will show below in code html:
----------------------------------------------------------------
<ul>
<li>0. The <title> element
<ul>
<li>defines a title in the browser toolbar </li>
<li>provides a title for the page when it is added to favorites </li>
<li>displays a title for the page in search-engine results </li>
</ul></li>
<li>1. CSS can be added to HTML in the following ways
<ul>
<li>Inline - using the style attribute in HTML elements</li>
<li>Internal - using the <style> element in the <head> section</li>
<li>External - using an external CSS file</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
----------------------------------------------------------------

Thank you very much.

Posted 7-May-13 21:08pm

duonglg

Updated 7-May-13 21:15pm

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy 8-May-13 3:16am

Format for what output medium?

lukeer 8-May-13 3:47am

OP wants to create HTML from some custom structured string.

Radoslav Dimitrov 8-May-13 8:59am

Yes, I think

lukeer 8-May-13 3:49am

That's an interesting task.
How is it causing you trouble?

OriginalGriff 8-May-13 4:05am

And? What part of this is causing you difficulties?
What have you tried? Where are you stuck?

duonglg 8-May-13 6:19am

That right? Out put is code html.
Now, I input paragraph:
-------
1. The <title> element 50m 45s
defines a title in the browser toolbar 15m 20s
provides a title for the page when it is added to favorites 15m 10s
displays a title for the page in search-engine results 20m 15s

-------
and out put

<li>1. The <title> element 50m 45s</li>
<li>defines a title in the browser toolbar 15m 20s</li>
<li>provides a title for the page when it is added to favorites 15m 10s</li>
<li>displays a title for the page in search-engine results 20m 15s</li>

i cant do continue for delete time end of row and insert tag ul to first every chapter.

duonglg 8-May-13 9:54am

string strImport;
strImport = tarImportLink.Text.ToString();
string[] lines = strImport.Split(new string[] { Environment.NewLine }, StringSplitOptions.None);
StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder();

for (int i = 0; i < lines.Length; i++)
{
string firstLi="<li>";
string endLi = "</li>";
s.AppendFormat("{0}{1}{2}{3}",firstLi,lines[i],endLi, Environment.NewLine);
}

string newString = s.ToString();
tarExportLink.EditValue = newString;

I do it now....
Please help me continue

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David_Wimbley · Answer 1 · 2013-05-08T09:57:00

You were pretty much there. The following code takes this input

XML

1. The <title> element 50m 45s
defines a title in the browser toolbar 15m 20s
provides a title for the page when it is added to favorites 15m 10s
displays a title for the page in search-engine results 20m 15s
2. CSS can be added to HTML in the following ways 21m 40s
Inline - using the style attribute in HTML elements 5m 10s
Internal - using the <style> element in the <head> section 10m 3s
External - using an external CSS file 6m 27s

and provides this output which from what i gather is your desired output.

XML

<ul>
<li>1. The <title> element 50m 45s</li>
<li>defines a title in the browser toolbar 15m 20s</li>
<li>provides a title for the page when it is added to favorites 15m 10s</li>
<li>displays a title for the page in search-engine results 20m 15s</li>
<li>2. CSS can be added to HTML in the following ways 21m 40s</li>
<li>Inline - using the style attribute in HTML elements 5m 10s</li>
<li>Internal - using the <style> element in the <head> section 10m 3s</li>
<li>External - using an external CSS file 6m 27s</li>
</ul>

I am pretty much using what you had in your comment above.

C#

var inputValue =
                @"1. The <title> element 50m 45s
                    defines a title in the browser toolbar 15m 20s
                    provides a title for the page when it is added to favorites 15m 10s
                    displays a title for the page in search-engine results 20m 15s
                    2. CSS can be added to HTML in the following ways 21m 40s
                    Inline - using the style attribute in HTML elements 5m 10s
                    Internal - using the <style> element in the <head> section 10m 3s
                    External - using an external CSS file 6m 27s";

            var lines = inputValue.Split(new[] { Environment.NewLine }, StringSplitOptions.None);
            var buildstr = new StringBuilder();

            buildstr.Append("<ul>" + Environment.NewLine);
            foreach (var line in lines)
            {
                buildstr.AppendFormat("<li>{0}{1}</li>", line.Trim(), Environment.NewLine);
            }
            buildstr.Append("</ul>" + Environment.NewLine);

            Console.WriteLine(buildstr.ToString());

If you desire to remove the times this method using Linq and Regex to remove the times.

C#

var inputValue =
                @"1. The <title> element 50m 45s
                    defines a title in the browser toolbar 15m 20s
                    provides a title for the page when it is added to favorites 15m 10s
                    displays a title for the page in search-engine results 20m 15s
                    2. CSS can be added to HTML in the following ways 21m 40s
                    Inline - using the style attribute in HTML elements 5m 10s
                    Internal - using the <style> element in the <head> section 10m 3s
                    External - using an external CSS file 6m 27s";

            var lines = inputValue.Split(new[] { Environment.NewLine }, StringSplitOptions.None);
            var buildstr = new StringBuilder();

            buildstr.Append("<ul>" + Environment.NewLine);
            foreach (string newline in lines.Select(line => Regex.Replace(line, "[0-9]+s", "")).Select(newline => Regex.Replace(newline, "[0-9]+m", "")))
            {
                buildstr.AppendFormat("<li>{0}</li>{1}", newline.Trim(), Environment.NewLine);
            }
            buildstr.Append("</ul>" + Environment.NewLine);

            Console.WriteLine(buildstr.ToString());

Which gives this output

XML

<ul>
<li>1. The <title> element</li>
<li>defines a title in the browser toolbar</li>
<li>provides a title for the page when it is added to favorites</li>
<li>displays a title for the page in search-engine results</li>
<li>2. CSS can be added to HTML in the following ways</li>
<li>Inline - using the style attribute in HTML elements</li>
<li>Internal - using the <style> element in the <head> section</li>
<li>External - using an external CSS file</li>
</ul>