accents in comparision

[curiousvbnet]

Hi,

i have created a sub of search in a listview but in this sub i need to compar elements, it means : the text a user writes in a text box and the label of listview item( listview items' array if it is exact)
To make this comparision more precise [blue]i need not to consider accents because in french language , people use accents.[/blue]

How can i get off this problem concerning these accents
[blue]è, é,ê,ë ( it can bel any letter instead of 'e') [/blue]
I thought that if i ask the textbox.text to be transformed to Upper case it will remove the accents automatically but it is not the case at all

Here is the condition i need to arrange

If Replace(TextBox1.Text.ToUpper.TrimEnd, "'", "''") = ListView1.Items(iItemIndex).Text.Substring(0, TextBox1.Text.TrimEnd.Length).ToUpper Then

Thanks a lot for your help

Regards.
Nathalie

 

[misterstick]

look at [tt]Imports System.Globalization[/tt] and the overload of [tt]string.Compare[/tt] that uses [tt]CultureInfo.CurrentCulture[/tt].




mr s. <

 

[curiousvbnet]

Hi,

This method permits to compare two string ignoring or respecting their case, but not ignoring their accents.

Perhaas you could tell more about your proposition.
Regards.
Nathalie

 

[misterstick]

use a CompareInfo object and the CompareOptions.IgnoreNonSpace option:

Dim comparer as CompareInfo
comparer = CompareInfo.GetCompareInfo(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Name) ' "fr-FR"?
If comparer.Compare("a", "à", CompareOptions.IgnoreNonSpace) = 0 Then
  ' do stuff
End If

mr s. <