Convert Vertical List to String Array

Ron Beyer

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You may want to take a look at String.Join:Your code can be compressed to:Dim str as Stringstr = Chr(34) + String.Join(Chr(34) + "," + Chr(34), arr) + Chr(34)(My VB skills are a bit lacking, so the syntax may be a bit off, but you get the idea).

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24 Sep 2010Alan Burkhart

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27 Sep 2010Alan Burkhart

I'd never used String.Join before. Didn't even know it was there. :laugh: However, part of the idea is to skip all empty lines AND not end up with an empty string at the end (which my first code didn't address) AND insert the quotes. To get all this done with String.Join, it still took 8...

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6 Oct 2010Prerak Patel

Pretty simple to ignore blank entries..Dim s As String = """" & String.Join(""",""", txt.SelectedTextt.Split(vbCrLf.ToCharArray, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)) & """"

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Ron Beyer

President 6D Systems LLC

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I studied Software Engineering at Milwaukee School of Engineering for 2 years before switching to Management of Information Systems for a more business oriented approach. I've been developing software since the age of 14, and have waded through languages such as QBasic, TrueBasic, C, C++, Java, VB6, VB.NET, C#, etc. I've been developing professionally since 2002 in .NET.

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