hi all,

I am wondering how I can get the ascii lengh of a string in VB.NET?
Especially that the string consists of alpha numerics as well as chinese
(double-byte) characters. Say I have a string "¢Ï¢Ð123" with the first 2
characters being double-byte, using Len() on that string would return me 5.
How can I get a value of 7 instead?? is there any VB.NET function that'd
achieve that?

Thanks a lot and your help's greatly appreciated.

just a thought haven't tried this
did you try to convert the string to a char array and take the length of
that (if the double-byte chars count as 2 ascii chars that might work)

hope it helps

eric

"Algren" <(E-Mail Removed)_SPAM> wrote in message
news:e0J6zKe%(E-Mail Removed)...
> hi all,
>
> I am wondering how I can get the ascii lengh of a string in VB.NET?
> Especially that the string consists of alpha numerics as well as chinese
> (double-byte) characters. Say I have a string "¢Ï¢Ð123" with the first 2
> characters being double-byte, using Len() on that string would return me
5.
> How can I get a value of 7 instead?? is there any VB.NET function that'd
> achieve that?
>
> Thanks a lot and your help's greatly appreciated.
>
>

Hi Algren,

Ascii string (I will be before Armin), do you mean the amount of 7 bits
occurences in the string?

Normaly a string gives back the lenght of char in the used unicode. (I do
not think that is different with Chinese with other types).

I never heard of a mixed up string which has different types of unicode in
it.

But just my thoughts,

Cor


>
> I am wondering how I can get the ascii lengh of a string in VB.NET?
> Especially that the string consists of alpha numerics as well as chinese
> (double-byte) characters. Say I have a string "¢Ï¢Ð123" with the first 2
> characters being double-byte, using Len() on that string would return me
5.
> How can I get a value of 7 instead?? is there any VB.NET function that'd
> achieve that?
>

hi Eric,

I tried that and it still gave the same result.

Thanks

"EricJ" <(E-Mail Removed)> ¦b¶l¥ó
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> just a thought haven't tried this
> did you try to convert the string to a char array and take the length of
> that (if the double-byte chars count as 2 ascii chars that might work)
>
> hope it helps
>
> eric
>
> "Algren" <(E-Mail Removed)_SPAM> wrote in message
> news:e0J6zKe%(E-Mail Removed)...
> > hi all,
> >
> > I am wondering how I can get the ascii lengh of a string in VB.NET?
> > Especially that the string consists of alpha numerics as well as chinese
> > (double-byte) characters. Say I have a string "¢Ï¢Ð123" with the first
2
> > characters being double-byte, using Len() on that string would return me
> 5.
> > How can I get a value of 7 instead?? is there any VB.NET function that'd
> > achieve that?
> >
> > Thanks a lot and your help's greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
>
>

hi Cor,

First thanks for replying.

"Cor" <(E-Mail Removed)> ¦b¶l¥ó news:OF0V3Ze%(E-Mail Removed) ¤¤¼¶
¼g...
> Hi Algren,
>
> Ascii string (I will be before Armin), do you mean the amount of 7 bits
> occurences in the string?
>
I think so. Just the effect of the first two characters being wider than
other alpha numerics

> Normaly a string gives back the lenght of char in the used unicode. (I do
> not think that is different with Chinese with other types).
>
> I never heard of a mixed up string which has different types of unicode in
> it.

Perhaps what I need is a way of distinguishing a double-byte word from
alpha-numerical characters in the same used unicode.
The problem is that with unicode I think every charater is treated as two
bytes.

>
> But just my thoughts,
>
> Cor
>
>
> >
> > I am wondering how I can get the ascii lengh of a string in VB.NET?
> > Especially that the string consists of alpha numerics as well as chinese
> > (double-byte) characters. Say I have a string "¢Ï¢Ð123" with the first
2
> > characters being double-byte, using Len() on that string would return me
> 5.
> > How can I get a value of 7 instead?? is there any VB.NET function that'd
> > achieve that?
> >
>
>

Hi Algren,
>
> Perhaps what I need is a way of distinguishing a double-byte word from
> alpha-numerical characters in the same used unicode.
> The problem is that with unicode I think every charater is treated as two
> bytes.
>
That is what I know from it.

Cor

"Algren" <(E-Mail Removed)_SPAM> wrote in message news:<e0J6zKe#(E-Mail Removed)>...
> hi all,
>
> I am wondering how I can get the ascii lengh of a string in VB.NET?
> Especially that the string consists of alpha numerics as well as chinese
> (double-byte) characters. Say I have a string "¢Ï¢Ð123" with the first 2
> characters being double-byte, using Len() on that string would return me 5.
> How can I get a value of 7 instead?? is there any VB.NET function that'd
> achieve that?
>
> Thanks a lot and your help's greatly appreciated.

The Len() function is provided for backwards compatability with VB6.
The "proper" way to obtain a string variable's current length is with
the String Class's .Length property. For example:

Dim myString as String

myString = "some value"
messagebox.show ("current length is " & myString.Length)

Does this give the same results?

Hi Zack,

>
> The Len() function is provided for backwards compatability with VB6.
> The "proper" way to obtain a string variable's current length is with
> the String Class's .Length property. For example:
>
> Dim myString as String
>
> myString = "some value"
> messagebox.show ("current length is " & myString.Length)

The string.length() function is provided for backwards compatabilitity with
C.

(I think that it else maybe had been count as all modern array's)

Len() is a full Net framework function (As is the string.length() function
also before you understand it wrong).

It are both "proper" ways to obtain a string variable's current length.

Just before people understand it wrong.

Cor

* "Algren" <(E-Mail Removed)_SPAM> scripsit:
> I am wondering how I can get the ascii lengh of a string in VB.NET?
> Especially that the string consists of alpha numerics as well as chinese
> (double-byte) characters. Say I have a string "¢Ï¢Ð123" with the first 2
> characters being double-byte, using Len() on that string would return me 5.
> How can I get a value of 7 instead?? is there any VB.NET function that'd
> achieve that?

'System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes', then get the length of the
returned array.

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

hi Zack,

Thanks for replying...

>
> The Len() function is provided for backwards compatability with VB6.
> The "proper" way to obtain a string variable's current length is with
> the String Class's .Length property. For example:
>
> Dim myString as String
>
> myString = "some value"
> messagebox.show ("current length is " & myString.Length)
>
> Does this give the same results?

Yeah it does, unfortunately.
I guess I am looking for a way to break the existing unicode encoding in
VB.NET or manually parse my string to filter ANSI and double-byte
characters. Any ideas?