Question

We have a tricky puzzle to solve in developing a scoring component. We have a C# program where we get scores from an Oracle database in the format of

Fieldname

field value

We parse them into two comma delimited strings.

We have a requirement that when we get a fieldname like “LOW@HIGH” with a field value of “11@21” we want to put it into another variable in the format of LOW=11,HIGH=21.

Answer 1

First parse the input:

var parts = input.Split('@');
var i1 = int.Parse(parts[0]);
var i2 = int.Parse(parts[1]);

Next calculate the result:

return "LOW=" + i1 + ",HIGH=" + i2;

The problem becomes easy if you break it into these two steps.