ascii length??

[Algren]

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.

 

[EricJ]

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

 

[Cor]

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

 

[Algren]

hi Eric,

I tried that and it still gave the same result.

Thanks

 

[Algren]

hi Cor,

First thanks for replying.

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.

 

[Cor]

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

 

[Zack Sessions]

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?

 

[Cor]

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

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

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.

 

[Algren]

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?

 

[Algren]

hi Herfried,

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

I tried it but it still gave me the same result. I think I'm doomed because
the string has been encoded to unicode already.

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I tried it but it still gave me the same result. I think I'm doomed because
the string has been encoded to unicode already.

Mhm...

 

[Cor]

Hi Herfried,

Just see my first answer, this looks if the idea is that in a string can
have

8bitsChar,16bitsChar,7bitsChar,16BitsChar

I start to think that I become crazy because I only say that this is not the
situation.

Cor

 

[Alexandre Moura]

Note, I'm not too familiar with this, but anyway:

It looks like ascii encoding literaly means only one byte per character - I
did run this code in a japanese machine and got the expected results:
Dim str As String = ChrW(30000) & ChrW(30000) & "123"
MsgBox(System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetByteCount(str))

this yields 7 bytes. I'm assuming that you could try to get what encoding
it is that you're writing files to disk and use that to get the byte count.

Hope that helps.

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