Question

I’d like to thank Stackoverflow member Pratap .R first because he helped me with the code. I’m still have a small formating issue with one of my replace functions. What is happening is when I replace </me> it replaces with ;. I can’t have the end of the row have a ; at the end.

using (FileStream strm = new FileStream(exportfile, FileMode.Create))
{
    using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(strm))
    {
        SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(sql, con);
        SqlDataReader reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();

        for (int i = 0; i < reader.FieldCount; i++)
            writer.Write((i == 0 ? "" : "|") + reader.GetName(i));

        writer.Write("\n");

        while (reader.Read())
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < reader.FieldCount; i++)
            {
                writer.Write
                (
                    (i == 0 ? "" : "|") +
                    reader[i].ToString().Replace(@"<me> ","")
                        .Replace(@"</me>", "|").Replace(@"</me>", ";")
                        .Replace('\n', ' ').Replace('\r', ' ')
                );
            }

            writer.WriteLine();
        }

        reader.Close();
    }
}

So you can see when it occurs with it’s replaced with “;”. I can’t have a ; end the row. Any suggestions or tips always appricated.

Answer 1

String objects also have a wonderful TrimEnd() function

string s = "Hello;";
s = s.TrimEnd((char)';');