[ACCEPTED]-Remove multiple char types from end of string-string

Accepted answer

Score: 28

returnValue = returnValue.TrimEnd(' ', ',');

Score: 8

You should also avoid using strings in your 4 case, instead use StringBuilder. Avoid also 3 using senseles formatting -just list[iRow] is 2 a better option.

Try something like this 1 instead:

string result = string.Join(", ", 
                  list.Where(s => !string.IsNullOrEmpty(s)).ToArray());

Score: 2

string's TrimEnd static method allows to 5 specify which characters should be trimmed.

However, in 4 your case it would make sense to check in 3 the for loop whether you have empty slots, and 2 at the end put together a resulting string 1 with string.Join(string separator, string[] parts)

Score: 2

If you want to remove something you added, don't 3 add them in the first place. Also, the StringBuilder type 2 is better suited for concatenating multiple 1 strings, as it much more memory efficient.

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

for (int i = 0; i < list.Count; i++)
{
    string rowValue = list[iRow];
    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(rowValue))
    {
        sb.Append(rowValue);
        sb.Append(", ");
    }    
}

// use sb.ToString() to obtain result

Score: 1

I hate to make assumptions, but I will because 9 it seems you want preserve the "gaps" until 8 you get to the end, in which case you should 7 use TrimEnd. If not, then use any one of 6 the other options to avoid adding the empty 5 values in the first place.

More precisely 4 if your output could look like:

asd, aaa, qwe, 123123, , , somevalue 3 , ,

Then you'll have to loop through and 2 use TrimEnd.

Otherwise, if you can collapse 1 the fields then exclude the empties upfront.

asd, aaa, qwe, 123123, somevalue

Score: 0

try this:

List<string> list = new List<string>(
    new string[]{"asd", "aaa", "qwe", "123123", "", null, "", null, ""});
return String.Join(", ", list.Where(i => !String.IsNullOrEmpty(i)).ToArray());

Score: 0

I realise that this is quite unreadable 1 AND is wasteful but (without linq):

return string.Join(" ,",string.Join(", ",list.ToArray()).Split(", ", StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries));

Score: 0

Found this, time for a better answer.

Try 5 this:

returnValue = returnValue.TrimEnd(", ".ToCharArray());

You can convert a regular string to 4 a char array and all those chars will be 3 trimmed.

However, There are more problems. See 2 comments in code below:

string returnValue 1 = "";

    for (int iRow = 0; iRow < list.Count; iRow++)   //start from 0 not 1
    {
        //returnValue += String.Format("{0}, ", list[iRow]);    
        
        if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(list[iRow]) == false)   //still allow space as valid entry...
        {
            //the list is already a list of strings, no reason to convert string to string.
            returnValue += list[iRow] + ", ";
        }
    }

    //alternatively try this, it will do all the work for you:
    //returnValue = string.Join<string>(", ", list);


    //deal with trailing comma and space at end:
    returnValue = returnValue.TrimEnd(", ".ToCharArray());

Source: stackoverflow.com

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