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Removing unwanted caracter from a string

Asked by: Fredyprogram

I have an application that gets CPU information, saves it into a string and wirtes in into text file. But in a certain CPU it´s reading some trash (unknown caracters) and I don´t want to write that in the text file. Below the string that it´s giving me:

AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+¶

It´s that last caracter that I wanto to take off before writing to the text file. I can´t just allways take the last caracter out because not all CPU information comes with that caracter. How and what is the best way of taking invalid caracters like that "¶" from my string ??? Thanks

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2005-09-28 at 04:30:13ID21576768
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Answers

 

by: mikelittlewoodPosted on 2005-09-28 at 05:38:48ID: 14974213

Is it a character or a carraige return?

If it is a character then

MyString := StringReplace(MyString, '¶', '', [rfReplaceAll])

 

by: FredyprogramPosted on 2005-09-28 at 07:04:28ID: 14974868

What´s a "carraige" ??

 

by: mikelittlewoodPosted on 2005-09-28 at 07:15:29ID: 14974980

Carriage return sorry mispelled. This is basically a line feed, like when u press enter in word to move down a line.
That is the charater you see when u press the button "show/hide ¶"

In delphi it is a combination of #10#13 I think, or might just be #10 or #13 I cant remember.

You would need to change the function to replace that instead
MyString := StringReplace(MyString, #10#13, '', [rfReplaceAll])
or
MyString := StringReplace(MyString, #10, '', [rfReplaceAll])

 

by: DavidBirch2dotComPosted on 2005-09-28 at 08:51:06ID: 14975980

Attacking this problem from the other end...   Instead of getting rid of certain characters ... surely it would be better to only keep characters that you want ... see the function below

Function CleanStr(temp: string): string;
var
  K: integer;
begin
  for K:= length(temp) downto 1 do // work backwards to avoid indexing issues
  Begin         // you may want to change this part to add more characters
     If not (temp[K] in ['A'..'Z','a'..'z','0'..'9','(',')'] ) then
      delete(temp,K,1)
  end;

 result:= temp
end;

// usage

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
   edit1.text:= CleanStr(edit1.Text);
end;

 

by: kretzschmarPosted on 2005-09-28 at 11:02:26ID: 14977332

you missed the spacechar, david :-))

 

by: DavidBirch2dotComPosted on 2005-09-28 at 11:08:53ID: 14977407

lol indeed  thanks :

Function CleanStr(temp: string): string;
var
  K: integer;
begin
  for K:= length(temp) downto 1 do // work backwards to avoid indexing issues
  Begin         // you may want to change this part to add more characters
     If not (temp[K] in ['A'..'Z','a'..'z','0'..'9','(',')',' '] ) then
      delete(temp,K,1)
  end;

 result:= temp
end;

 

by: the_pikiPosted on 2005-09-28 at 11:58:22ID: 14977902

First "carriage return" <CR> = #13,
second "line feed" <LF> #10.

LP,
Dejan

 

by: ZhaawZPosted on 2005-09-28 at 14:36:06ID: 14979389

Fredyprogram, could you post a code that you use to get CPU name?

I believe there's some way to avoid getting this invalid char instead of getting rid of it.

 

by: ZhaawZPosted on 2005-09-29 at 11:05:46ID: 14986250

mikelittlewood, btw, value of '¶' char is 182 - there's nothing to do with #13 or #10.

 

by: mikelittlewoodPosted on 2005-09-30 at 01:10:23ID: 14990400

ah ok .. guess my brain was in Word mode he he

I guess
MyString := StringReplace(MyString, '¶', '', [rfReplaceAll])
should work

 

by: ZhaawZPosted on 2005-09-30 at 01:12:21ID: 14990405

I still think that there's some way to avoid getting unwanted chars in this case...

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