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c# Substring Help

Im checking the substring of an item and I keep getting and index out of range error.

if (memberSequenceList.Items[sequencePosition].StatusFlags.Substring(17).Equals("1"))
{

}

The StatusFlags substring in question looks like this '0000000000000100000000'

Can someone help me get around this or point out what I may be doing wrong?

Thanks

mwochnick

how many items are in the memberSequenceList and how is the value sequencePosition set?
That's where your index out of bounds is coming from.

jmpatton

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There are 26 members in memberSequenceList and the sequencePosition is 10.

memberSequenceList.Items[10].StatusFlags = "00000000000001000000000000000000"

So thats why im so confused on the error. Because im asking if (memberSequenceList.Items[10].StatusFlags.Substring(17).Equals("1")).

If its not equal to "1", I would think that it would just drop down to the next block of code.

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Fernando Soto

Hi jmpatton;

You state that StatusFlags is equal to this string "0000000000000100000000" and the command you are using is StatusFlags.Substring(17).Equals("1")). The SubString starting at index 17 of the string which is the 18th character in that string because strings are zero index based to the end of the string which makes Substring(17) equal to the string "00000" which will never equal a string of length of one character. Therefore the Substring method that you should use is this implementation SubString( StartIndex, Length ) therefore your statement should be this:

if (memberSequenceList.Items[sequencePosition].StatusFlags.Substring(17, 1).Equals("1"))
{

}

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Hope that helps