Question

I am using asp.net and I am trying to save checkbox values into a database. Multiple checkboxes may be entered into the same field in the database. So for instance I have two checkboxes with names ‘Comma’ and ‘Hyphen’ and if the user checks both of these then the database will store the values ‘,’,’-‘. How do you do this?

thanks

Answer 1

To save multiple values into the same column I’d recommend using a flag enumeration. Here is a code sample using checkboxes.

If you really have to store the values in a comma-delimited format, might try something like this:

List<string> values = new List<string>(); if (cbComma.Checked) {    values.Add('',''); } ... string result = values.ToArray().Join(',');