Question

I must be tired because this should be simple. I am trying to find the values passed into my program from the command line.

Here’s the code:

private static bool ParseParms(IEnumerable<string> parms)
{

  try
  {
  foreach (var s in parms)
  {
    if (!s.Contains(":")) continue;
    var split = s.Split(Convert.ToChar(":"));
    if (split.Count() != 2) continue;
    Console.WriteLine("split[0]: " + split[0]);
    Console.WriteLine("split[1]: " + split[1]);
    switch (s[0].ToString())
    {
        // branch
      case "b":
        CustomerInfo.Branch = split[1];
        break;

        // account
      case "a":
        CustomerInfo.AccountNumber = split[1];
        break;

        //name
      case "n":
        CustomerInfo.Name = split[1];
        break;

        //street
      case "str":
        CustomerInfo.Street = split[1];
        break;

        // city
      case "c":
        CustomerInfo.City = split[1];
        break;

        // state
      case "st":
        CustomerInfo.State = split[1];
        break;

        // street
      case "z":
        CustomerInfo.Zip = split[1];
        break;

    }

  }

  Console.WriteLine("=======================");
  Console.WriteLine("name: " + CustomerInfo.Name);
  Console.WriteLine("br: " + CustomerInfo.Branch);
  Console.WriteLine("acctno: " + CustomerInfo.AccountNumber);
  Console.WriteLine("street: " + CustomerInfo.Street);
  Console.WriteLine("city: " + CustomerInfo.City);
  Console.WriteLine("state: " + CustomerInfo.State);
  Console.WriteLine("zip: " + CustomerInfo.Zip);
  Console.WriteLine("=======================");


  if(string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(CustomerInfo.Branch) || string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(CustomerInfo.AccountNumber))
  {
    return false;
  }
  return true;
  }
  catch (Exception ex)
  {
    Console.WriteLine("Error: " + ex.Message);
    return false;
  }
}

This is what I’m passing in:

“b:01” “a:012345” “n:John Doe” “str:123 Street” “st:AL” “c:Bessemer” “z:35020”

The is the console from the debug:

split[0]: b
split[1]: 01
split[0]: a
split[1]: 012345
split[0]: n
split[1]: John Doe
split[0]: str
split[1]: 123 Street
split[0]: st
split[1]: AL
split[0]: c
split[1]: Bessemer
split[0]: z
split[1]: 35020

This is the results:

=======================
name: John Doe
br: 01
acctno: 012345
street: 
city: Bessemer
state: 
zip: 35020
=======================

As you can see, the street and state are blank and I can’t figure out why…

Halp!

Answer 1

The Problem was just a typo. You typed

switch (s[0].ToString())

instead of

switch (split[0].ToString())