Simple String problem

[aspnetprog]

Hi,
I am a bit in asp c#. I am reading a file

Patient Name: GEORGE ABRAMS Sex:Male
Patient Name: John B RAMS Sex:Male
Patient Name: Sandy SA ABRAMS Sex:Male
Patient Name: GEORGE ABRAMS Sex:Male
Patient Name: Smith ABRAMS Sex:Male

I want the the following output:-

GEORGE ABRAMS male
John B RAMS Male
Sandy SA ABRAMS Male
GEORGE ABRAMS male

...
..


I have a string sflie = "Patient Name: GEORGE ABRAMS Sex:Male"
whats the best an easy way.

Also in the new file there should not be any repetations like line 1 and 4 are the same. The output file should Not have same entry.


Any help would be great
Thanks

[danasegarane]

Take the postion of : and Sex and Extract the inner text using the substring method. Then use ArrayList Collection object to store this values.Before adding these values to the array list,check whether the value exist in the array list using .Contains method of the ArrayList.If u want to some coding please do comeback

[sekarm]

Dear aspnetprog,
As i think you split the string using String.Split function according to ":" then validate the string. for example,

string sfile = "Patient Name: GEORGE ABRAMS Sex:Male";
            string[] splirt = sfile.Split(char.Parse(":"));
            foreach(string s in splirt)
            {
                if (!s.Contains("Patient Name"))
                {
                    if (s.Contains("Sex"))
                    {
                        string ss = s.Substring(0, s.IndexOf("Sex"));
                        Console.Write(ss);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        Console.Write(s);
                    }
                }
            }

Thanks..

[aspnetprog]

thanks Sekarm. that code works fine
But now in new file there should not be any repetitions like line 1 and 4 are the same. The output file should Not have same entry.

GEORGE ABRAMS male
John B RAMS Male
Sandy SA ABRAMS Male
GEORGE ABRAMS male

I dont want repetitions...any help

[sekarm]

Dear aspnetprog,
As Danasegarane told you have add string file in Arraylist. Use ArrayList.Contains function you may check the current file is added or not. then you may not get repitation.

Thanks...

[aspnetprog]

Thanks a lot. I will try thr arraylist.