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C# String Manipulation

Hi,

I have a GridView that contains a comapny name. The problem is that although the GridView displays the text correct e.g. 'Smtih & Sons', when my code gets the text from the cell, i am returned 'Smith & Sons'.

How can I get it to return what I can see on the screen?

Thanks.

protected void GridViewBrowseResults_RowCommand(object sender, GridViewCommandEventArgs e)
{
  if (e.CommandName.Equals("ViewFile"))
  {
    int index = Convert.ToInt32(e.CommandArgument);
    string myRootDir = BrowseType;
    string myCompanyDir = GridViewBrowseResults.Rows[index].Cells[1].Text;
    string mySubDir = myListDirectoryMap[index].File_Folder;
    string myFileName = GridViewBrowseResults.Rows[index].Cells[3].Text;
    myToolBox.SetAccessPath(myRootDir, myCompanyDir, mySubDir, myFileName);
    }
}
 
 
Watch Results:
 
index	                      0                   	int
myRootDir	                      "quotation"    	string
myCompanyDir	"Smith &amp; Sons"	string
mySubDir	                     "12008"         	string
myFileName	                     "FQ-0000012008-0"	string

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tculler

Yeah, the above will work perfectly; however, be aware that the ampersand (&) is not the only 'trick' character. There are a few more, as follows:

< >
> <
" "
& &
' ' // Not always, though!

That's all I can think of off the top of my head, for now.

tculler

Oh great, this site's system is even too ghetto to handle itself, lol. The first two lines are supposed to say

< & gt;
> & lt;

No spaces between the letters and the & though

MaxOvrdrv2

my post above should handle all of the characters...

tetorvik

Setting BoundField.HtmlEncode to false will do the trick as well.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.boundfield.htmlencode.aspx

Member_2_3703398

ASKER

Hi,

Thank you all for the posts. Tetorvik, I tried your suggestion but unfortunately, I had no success with it.

Member_2_3703398

ASKER

Thank you for the code. Works like a dream.