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Instr() Function in C#

Hello,

Converting an app from VB.NET¿C# has caused a great many errors(mostly conversion). Some however, are stumpers: for instance why can't I use similar syntactical convention when using instr()

This is VB code...
If Microsoft.VisualBasic.InStr(txtStrike.Text, Chr(46)) > 0 And Len(txtStrike.Text) = 5 Then
This is C# converted...
if (Strings.InStr(txtStrike.Text, Strings.Chr(46), 1)) > 0 & Strings.Len(txtStrike.Text) == 6) {

to which I receive 'Invalid Expression Term' error under '>' operator when building

Many thanks

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Carl Tawn

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kraiven

Surprised that is the only error as neither Strings nor InStr exists in C#; nor do Chr() and a single '&' is a bitwise AND where as you want a logical AND which is '&&'.

I'm sure the likes of Redgates Reflector would make a far better conversion job than this.

You need to use - from your example:

if (txtStrike.Text.Contains((char)46) && txtStrike.Text.Length == 6) ...

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by the way, why is your VB code looking for length 5 and you other version looking for length 6?

jcampanali

ASKER

Well I did place using Microsoft.VisualBasic; so it would at least recognize the Instr() and related VB functions. I'll give a try to the above referenced.

kraiven

using Microsoft.VisualBasic - good point. Sorry I hadn't thought of that.

In that case the issue is probably the single '&' sign.

kaufmed

@carl_tawn

You would probably want to include 0 in the comparison since IndexOf is index-oriented whereas InStr is position-oriented.

txtStrike.Text.IndexOf('.') >= 0

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