IndexOfAny

Hello,

I am in the midst of building a program that will parse a giant file down to what I need. So I read in hundreds of lines, I then assign the appropriate lines to an array. I then need to look through each line in the array and figure out positioning because the material I am looking for is embedded within a bunch of garbage. I am able to figure this out by looking for the first instance of the "<" character and the second instance of the ">" character.

So I used IndexOf to find the first index number which worked perfectly. I then want to use the IndexOfAny with additional I believe overloads, one of the character "<" and of a starting index to prevent looking at the first instance of "<".

Here is what I got...

Code:

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            string specialCharacterStringOne = ">";


            char[] specialCharacterStringTwo = new char[1];

            specialCharacterStringTwo[0] = '<';

            for (g = g; g != z; g++)
            {
                int specialCharacterOne = outputFile2[g].IndexOf(specialCharacterStringOne);
                int specialCharacterTwo = outputFile2[g].IndexOfAny(specialCharacterStringTwo[0], specialCharacterOne);

            }

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Unfortunately it doesn't like my IndexOfAny and throws the following errors:

Error 4 The best overloaded method match for 'string.IndexOfAny(char[], int)' has some invalid arguments

Error 5 Argument '1': cannot convert from 'char' to 'char[]'

I figured by doing "char[] specialCharacterStringTwo = new char[1];" I would bypass this cannot convert from 'char' to 'char[]' but that doesn't seem to be working and I am now lost.

Now I feel like an idiot....this appears to have corrected it.

Code:

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int specialCharacterTwo = outputFile2[g].IndexOfAny(new char[] {specialCharacterStringTwo[0]}, specialCharacterOne);

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Quote:

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Originally Posted by tomtom1923

Now I feel like an idiot....this appears to have corrected it.

Code:

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int specialCharacterTwo = outputFile2[g].IndexOfAny(new char[] {specialCharacterStringTwo[0]}, specialCharacterOne);

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Since the method expects an array of chars, you could also have done this:

Code:

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int specialCharacterTwo = outputFile2[g].IndexOfAny(specialCharacterStringTwo, specialCharacterOne);

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