Carriage return characters and strings...

[cerebalbore]

Hi all,

I've got an issue with an application and carriage return characters, and after researching and Googling haven't found a solution.

In the application a user enters the first comment, then when a subsequent comment is added to the existing, the existing comment(string) is separated using string split on chr(10), the second comment is added and a separator is entered as chr(10) between them, and so on.

This should eventually build up a string like this:

"[1]:Blah Blah blah" & chr(10) & "[2]:blah blah blah" & chr(10) & "[3]:Blah blah blah"

This does two things - allows the datagrid view to structure each comment on separate lines and gives us a character to separate the comments from the string, which allows us to build functionality to amend comments.

The problem comes when a user presses the enter key when entering a comment. It adds VbCrLf on the end of each line, so the string eventually looks like this:

"[1]:Blah " & chr(10) & chr(13) & "blah blah" & chr(10) & "[3]:Blah blah" & chr(10)

Notice how the comments aren't in order?? And how it's almost impossible to split this string into the original comments?

So I guess my question is, is there a character I can use that will act like a carriage return (which isn't 13 or 10), and that can't be entered via the keyboard?


I'm such a noob

 

[jebenson]

If the items ([1], [2], etc.) are being entered in a textbox, you can disable the Enter key for that textbox so users can't insert a vbCrLf. You would use the textbox's KeyDown event:

Private Sub TextBox1_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.KeyDown
If e.KeyCode = Keys.Enter Then
e.Handled = True 'handle the Enter key. It won't produce a vbCrLf in the textbox
Else
'do something
End If
End Sub



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[dbsquared]

You could also just strip out the chr(13)from your string when are retrieving the data from the textbox

dim tempstring as string = textbox.text.replace(chr(13),"")
or something like that as i haven't tested it out yet.

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[cerebalbore]

Hi guys,

Thanks for the suggestions, I have tried to stop the users pressing enter, but they had a paddy about it.

I'll just make them choose whether they want to edit comments or press enter!!

Thanks

I'm such a noob