[2008] text parse problem (or long code)

[jmcilhinney]

Your description is really not very clear. Are you saying that if one of the fields in your TemplateValues object is Nothing or an empty string, you want to replace the template field with "N/A"? If so then I'd say that you have two options:

1. Build that functionality into your TemplateValues class:

Public Class TemplateViews
 
    Private _clientName As String
    '...
 
    Public Property ClientName() As String
        Get
            Return If(String.IsNullOrEmpty(Me._clientName), "N/A", Me._clientName)
        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As String)
            Me._clientName = value
        End Set
    End Property
 
    '...
 
End Class

2. Use a similar If statement when calling Replace each time:

stringToParse = stringToParse.Replace("[CLIENTNAME]", If(String.IsNullOrEmpty(tv.ClientName), "N/A", tv.ClientName))

The first option would be preferable unless that functionality is not logically part of the TemplateValues class.