20 Apr 2012
Jani Giannoudis
Concepts and patterns for the handling of strings in multilingual applications.
An atricle introducing a StringBuilder class written in C++
13 Mar 2013
Michael D Bray
Filling in text templates from a data source.
10 Mar 2007
Dileepa Jayathilaka
An article on the implementation of a dictionary where everything is kept in the disk as a B-Tree.
Presents a header file that allows a single source file that uses STL to be built in either ANSI or Unicode, without any changes or lots of #ifdefs.
27 Feb 2007
Dileepa Jayathilaka
An article on a tool which unifies a string with a template consisting of variables and constants
13 Apr 2004
Rafid K. Abdullah
An article describing how to parse simple mathematical expressions (containing only +, -, *, /, and numbers) and evaluate their values.
An advanced article about string processing
6 Jun 2005
Olivier Lombart
An article about stack-allocated dynamic strings in C++.
A C# class that can generate random strings and supports customisation.
Some commonly used operations with string in c# as extension methods
A simple utility to help convert strings into other types
Function to replace all occurences of a string within another, ignoring the case
A function which doesn't require changing the case of the strings, and was also DBCS (double-byte character set) friendly.
30 Sep 2001
Todd Jeffreys
Class that represents strings in a tier to enable faster lookups.
An MFC Class which offers you the abbility to check Strings for invalid characters
How to convert safely STL strings between Unicode formats
CString based path splitter.
A Class to Utilise Perl String Functions
13 Dec 2001
John Simmons / outlaw programmer
A small function to either accept or create a UUID* and return a CString
18 May 2000
Joseph M. Newcomer
Learn how to effectively use CStrings.
A Drop-In replacement for CString that builds on the Standard C++ Library's basic_string template
30 Jun 2002
Oskar Wieland
CStringW and CStringA for WTL
An article on an alternative for TextOut (ExtTextOut) function.
22 Oct 2001
Eddie Velasquez
A simple tokenizer class that can be used on CStrings
24 Jul 2011
dotted_decimal
Custom formatting of String datatype in .NET based on intuitive formatting pattern
This article describes creating and managing 1D, 2D and 3D string arrays
26 Sep 2005
Serge Wautier
Two classes that help you to easily load (and format) messages from the String table.
Class module to easily de-/compress and en-/decrypt big strings
Allow for constructs within a string to be programmatically evaluated for a final string value
Text document files can be enhanced by using construct and equivalent classes that "know" how to evaluate the constructs.
Shows how using reverse engineering feature developers may add new conditions into string CAML queries using lambda expressions.
Here I describe how you can write your own implementation of string.Format method using slightly more readable syntax of format string.
11 Dec 2007
Anders Eriksson
An extended CStringArray class
Concatenating strings is critical in many dynamic content situations. Here is how to make it scale and then be fast and scale.
Splitting CString objects is mostly easy, but can be tricky. I developed this function for using it with CSV files.
Managing a textual numbering system for hashing words into numbers
A simple class to encapsulate a file system path for easy manipulation.
7 Nov 2005
Roland Pibinger
New style string class(es) for ASCII and UNICODE, single- and multi-threaded environments.
Smart string formatting and other string utilities
This is an implementation of a text search tool, which can be used to index and search for texts within a collection of documents. The code is written in C# .NET and requires framework 1.1 to run. No third party search tool has been used, every bit of the algorithm has been implemented from scratch.
6 Nov 2008
osella.esteban
This article describes how to handle streams of non-English characters.
This article illustrates how to format a std::string using a variable argument list similar to CString's Format.
25 Nov 2013
S. M. Ahasan Habib
In this article I will demonstrate how to read a large CSV file chunk by chunk (line basis) and populate DataTable object and bulk insert to database.
4 Jan 2013
Kerem Guemruekcue
How to reverese a string in C#/.NET with almost one line of code using a build in Windows library function which is available on any Windows system.
IBAN verification algorithm in C# and used in Excel UDF and Word SmartTag.
Introduces the Double Metaphone algorithm for phonetic comparison of proper names, and provides a practical C++ implementation for use in the reader's projects.
Surveys other phonetic matching techniques, and presents additional resources on the subject.
Presenting a generic way to convert Array contents to Strings
17 Nov 2006
John Simmons / outlaw programmer
A technique for making stdio functions compile clean regardless of the Microsoft compiler used
KString class, a non MFC string class.
17 Mar 2005
Chris Losinger
CXR allows you to create encrypted strings at compile time.
4 Dec 2005
Roland Pibinger
Simplify string handling with a wrapper for std::string.
4 Mar 2006
PJ Arends
1 alternative
A function that uses STL strings and streams in an effort to mimic and improve on the FormatMessage API.
MatchKit is a .NET Library that provides a set of classes to build patterns to match simple and complex strings
Here I describe several implementations of extended string.Format() methods.
12 Sep 2004
Rui A. Rebelo
A function which returns the similarity between two strings (how much they're equal).
An implementation of a Natural Sort Comparer
Standalone refcounted string class.
12 Aug 2000
Paul E. Bible
A Non-MFC String Class for use in ATL components
Should you use Regular Expressions, built-in .NET methods, or your own solution written from scratch?
27 Dec 2004
Peter Kankowski
Optimizing string-manipulation functions.
3 May 2007
VaibhavGaikwad
Simple ways to parse CSV documents when values are embedded in double quotes.
28 Dec 2004
Michael Jaworski
Article demonstrates a text-based Patricia trie and adds new text-compression features.
15 Apr 2008
Peter Kankowski
Spelling messages like "5 file(s) found" correctly in any language
A script for extracting string literals from source code for review
An article on XML parsing using CString.
25 Oct 2007
Govardhana Reddy
This article will help you to find a way to convert RDF to RSS Feed format.
This might save you 15 minutes and avoid the embarrasment of returning your 'sa' password to your customers along with an error message.
Revise is a command line text editing tool
RichText Builder - use in place of StringBuilder to output RTF.
Create Rich Text Format documents programatically.
It is a lib that can process XML documents or JSON by changing a config file.
A robust mechanism for sending CString objects to windows within the current process.
Simple extension for better substring functionality and numeric formatting
14 Dec 2004
Hatem Mostafa
Fast string parsing in nested loops.
16 Jul 2009
Kendall Miller
By implementing a single instance string store, you can significantly reduce the memory footprint of your application.
Another take on the classic, now using SSE instructions
A function that will split an input string based on a string delimiter.
30 Jul 2009
CrazyJugglerDrummer
Make a program that can perform various manipulations on a string.
23 May 2000
Zoran M. Todorovic
Set of classes enabling UNICODE and ANSI string conversion.
27 Jul 2007
Kiran Bheemarti
String enumerations for two way binding.
Several useful extensions for System.String.
An article on string manipulation in the .NET Micro Framework.
15 Jan 2013
Md Atiqur Rahman (Atique)
Tips and tricks on String manipulations in Unicode (Windows Programming context)
String optimization methods and best practices in VB.NET.
15 Mar 2002
John Simmons / outlaw programmer
Parse strings with specified delimiter and specified quote character
User defined StringTokenizer
A very simple string tokenizer class.
27 Jun 2002
Daniel Andersson
A string tokenizer iterator class that works with std::string
22 Jul 2007
M Shahid Shafiq
A simple function to perform wildcard ( * ? ) string matching
1 Jun 2011
AspDotNetDev
1 alternative
StringBuilderPlus facilitates prefixing and suffixing strings and StringBuilderPluses in an efficient manner.
Yet another C# implementation of Java's StringTokenizer (in a ready to use library).
How to structure the logic of a word search engine.
A template string tokenizer class that works with both CStringArray and CStringList.
A class to block the size of a given text.
An opposite way to FileIO.TextFieldParser to easily write fixed-length fields into a text file.
Performing many replacements in a string at one time.
12 Dec 2003
AnOldGreenHorn
An extended string class for C++ programmers
Simple extension methods that greatly simplify ToString, Logging, and Debug output.
29 Apr 2005
Andreas Muegge
A practical example how to use the Levenshtein algorithm for string matching
24 May 2010
Rui Figueiredo
A simple class to read EDI TRADACOMS Order 9.
String and String-List classes compatible with both ASCII and UNICODE strings.
A useful class now twice as fast.
16 Jan 2009
PIEBALDconsult
Untabify and Tabify Extension Methods for intending code.
This article describes how to use wildcard to make input validation in CEdit control or to compare string with wildcard.
1 Feb 2007
Dennis Gourjii
A set of functions to perform the tasks that CString fails to address properly
Code for changing a string resource, that actually works!
31 Jul 2011
George Mamaladze
Generate a word cloud form some input text. A word cloud is a randomly arranged set of words used in your text. The size and the color of each word expresses its usage frequency. Rarely used words are small and pale. The control is clickable and allows to identify a word under mouse.
11 May 2003
Hans Dietrich
Extended string and memory search functions: memmem(), memimem(), memichr(), _tcsistr()
16 May 2007
Hans Dietrich
XSearch implements a search engine-style advanced search, including ALL, EXACT PHRASE, AT LEAST ONE, and WITHOUT words. XSearch is based on a multiple-substring search algorithm.
XString offers functions for remove, replace, trim, and case-insensitive search that are not included in the CRT.
20 May 2003
Hans Dietrich
XTrim implements _tcsltrim and _tcsrtrim - CRT-like functions to trim whitespace.
MFC/non-MFC usage, UNICODE support, numerics operations support
Helper class to build formatted strings and lists. Lots of features and very quick.
Another class for extracting fields of string
String - Regular Expressions
20 Oct 2006
kurt.griffiths
Handy Regex test utility for .NET helps you get the right expression to use in your code
17 Nov 2009
Carl Johansen
Describes a free web-based utility for testing Regular Expressions and performing bulk text transformations.
A class to perform a "naive" comparison of two chunks of text to see if they look to be the same.
A tutorial to demonstrate adding regular expressions to your project using Regex++ from boost.org.
Describes the theory behind regular expressions (RE) as well as the practical usage.
2 Apr 2014
Farhad Alizadeh Noori
This article details the implementation of an efficient grouped regular expression searcher.
10 Jan 2007
Eugene Mirotin (Guard)
This article describes a class VarRegex allowing you to reuse parts of regular expressions
Regular Expressions enable your application to parse text files of customized formats.
The article describes how to automate navigation through Web pages, i.e. send parameters and grab the required information automatically
A small, Unicode-aware regular expression engine based on Henry Spencer's early work
This article will introduce you with a set of 3 simple extension methods that can help you getting rid of Regex in many situations
A function to apply a regex replacement to a file.
14 Oct 2009
Daniel Killyevo
Gets all links that a page contains.
Provides administrators with a way to re-format biographical data from case-insensitive data-sources.
This article answers some of the first questions that come up when using regular expressions in C++ TR1
Using the power of regex to parse your logs
It aids you to develop and fully test your regular expression against a target text.
20 Aug 2009
PIEBALDconsult
Presenting a test bed for .NET Regular Expressions
27 Aug 2013
Rion Williams
This post is going to cover a new library called RegExpBuilder which aims to transform very nasty looking regular expressions into easily readable formats that can easily be built and understood.
8 Sep 2005
Christopher Scholten
A simple Regular Expression Tester which allows one string to be tested against a standard regular expression, with feedback on the result in both text and graphical format as either the regular expression or the test string are typed.
26 Apr 2006
Anil Choudary
Regular Expressions Usage with Examples
7 Sep 2008
Stanislav Kniazev
Easy to use syntax highlighting class
An article that explains Regular Expressions
how to use the Microsoft regular expression object in your C++ program
Derived currently supports RTF and HTML format
CATLRegExp - A Visual C++ built-in regular expression.
26 Sep 2008
Alex Perepletov
A convenient way to document the intent of each part of a regex.
Matches a string against a wildcard string such as "*.*" or "bl?h.*" etc. This is good for file globbing or to match hostmasks.
13 Dec 2008
Steve Abraham
This article shows the reader how to construct a library of scalar and table valued functions for SQL Server 2005 to perform regular expression analysis.
31 Oct 2006
Dominique Bijnens
A tool to quickly verify a sentence's correctness.
A C# .NET implemntation of HTML text compare and merge engine based on a similar algorithm as the Unix diff.
25 Jun 2004
Ken Mackenzie
How to easily add line numbers to source code or text.
23 Oct 2006
Andrew Tweddle
Runs a console application and returns its output as a string. Useful for writing object-oriented wrappers around command line utilities, such as Subversion's svn utility.
20 Sep 2005
Anthony Johnston
Templating for text based formats.
10 Mar 2014
Dan Letecky
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Parsing PDF files in .NET using PDFBox and IKVM.NET (managed code).
A string template method that allows you to fill a string with data. Easy to use, fast, extensible, and extremely powerful! Uses Reflection, Conditional Formatting, iterating through Arrays, and more!
An alternative to native string and StringBuilder options
Find a fast way to replace case insenstive string.
A .NET library for generating Word documents (.DOC) using the RTF (Rich Text Format) specification.
23 Mar 2006
Marius Gheorghe
Learn more about Karmencita, an object query language for .NET.
The NetSpell project is a spell checking engine written entirely in managed C# .NET code.
Class library to manage RTF files.
An article on parsing/opening event log files(*.evt) using c#
This article describes an approach to processing multiple command line arguments.
A class for removing or replacing non-printable Unicode characters.
An article to demonstrate how to repair broken text.
28 Mar 2010
PIEBALDconsult
An improved string split method.
A C# Library for tokenizing, argument parsing, and file finding.
8 Nov 2011
AbhishekGoenka
Use of SecureString class in .NET
A quick and simple method for splitting up the lines in your .csv file.
A small set of helper methods for string manipulation.
A user defined String Tokenizer (Java).
An article on performance of String Vs StringBuilder and better places where each can be used
16 May 2005
Nish Sivakumar
A convertor class for managed-unmanaged string conversions that handles memory de-allocations. Caller need not worry about freeing unmanaged memory allocations.
This article will teach you how to use ANSI colors using .NET
16 May 2008
John Paul Pirau
Use CString to convert betwen UTF8 and UTF16.
8 Jul 2009
Nemanja Trifunovic
A simple, portable, and lightweight generic library for handling UTF-8 encoded strings.
1 May 2006
mohsen ahmadian
This article describes a new Word Search Engine for your application or website.
8 Feb 2010
Troy Simpson, Thanh Dao
Capturing the semantic similarity between two short sentences based on the WordNet dictionary.
Plug-in CodeProject's CStdString as WTL::CString and get the WTL CString support with a Standard C++ Library implementation.
17 Jan 2006
Werner.Reyneke
Library containing functions for XML Querying, Text Streaming, Debug Capture and LDAP.
Converts a string to any format you want!!!
An article on how to decode Base64 and Quoted-Printable text without using MFC.
Convert ASCII text to binary and back.
Convert a string containing a hex value to an integer
Convert an integer to its textual description
Benchmarks on various conversion technqiues, commentary, and some custom conversion functions.
A quick and easy solution to produce excellent HTML from RTF without parsing
An article on converting CStrings to chars without data loss.
Overcoming limitations of: Enhanced String Handling
17 Aug 2011
Alexander Bessonov
Introduces a fast and type-safe parameter rendering library (type-safe printf)
5 Aug 2002
Nguyen Luong Son
A DLL to convert Float and datetime to Vietnamese textual string
31 Mar 2009
James Mouchett
To format a string into currency without the dependency of VB6
22 Aug 2003
Robert Pittenger, MCPD-EAD
An article on converting to/from C strings and various VB BSTR string types
A class for longitude and latitude values so as to parse the string to render a double, or format a double into a string.
Implementation of IFormatProvider interface allowing to format "dirty-data" phone numbers into uniformed string
A simple tool that converts ANSI string to Unicode using a code page you select.
4 Dec 2010
Elmar de Groot
Convert strings to their strong typed counterpart with String.ConvertTo().
26 Jun 2001
Ryszard Krakowiak
Convert string using URLEncode method
23 Oct 2003
Robert Pittenger, MCPD-EAD
How to Encode and Decode Text to/from UTF-8
26 Jun 2002
Hans Dietrich
An easy-to-use function that provides locale-correct comma-formatting of numbers
String - Text Search and Replace
25 Apr 2010
Scot Brennecke
A string array class using MFC or STL that performs very fast multiple string searches
Tokenize and access string contents using a format mask
A component that will find similar words in a lexicon as the user is writing on to make it easy to word-complete for the user. For use in Win32 graphical or console applications.
An engine to allow you to search for strings in text files and replace them.
9 Sep 2013
Bojan Antolovic
A class similar to StringBuilder with a faster Replace function.
7 Apr 2007
Kishore Ramakrishnan
An article on using regular expressions to implement Find and Replace functionality
This article introduces a template class-based approach to construct and query Patricia tries. The article includes source code and a demo application.
This program is to search for words on text files.
Library which contains code for replacing some of the Text in files based on conditions and handling the files by reading and writing strings from or to the file by recursively browsing the folder.
Fuzzy String matching algorithms for Spell correction and string similarity matching using Edit Distance algortihms.
XTokenString extracts tokens from a string, and returns a CStringArray that contains tokens. A token is defined by specified delimiters; double-quotes may optionally group multiple words into a single token, and an option is provided for handling escaped characters.
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