Hello all,

I get passed an array of strings (20 characters long each) to my function, I need to divide each string it in two exact halves, trim them and convert them to integers. Add them and return the result as an array of integers.

This is thus far what I've done.

//Declaring variables
char [] charTemp = new char[20];
char [] charOne = new char[10] ;
char [] charTwo = new char[10];
string strOne;
string strTwo;
char [] trimChar = {' '};
int intTmp = 0;

//strayFile is the array of strings I get.
string strTemp;
strTemp = strayFile[0];
charTemp = strTemp.ToCharArray();

//Operating first part of the string.
for (int j=0; j < 10; j++)
        charOne[j] = charTemp[j];
AND IF I DO
    strOne = charOne.ToString();
        strOne = strOne.Trim(trimChar);
        intTmp = Convert.ToInt32(strOne);
the value for strOne shows in red as "System.Char[]"
and when it assigns the value in strOne to intTmp it bombs with an unhandled exception ofo type 'System.FormatException'.

IF I DO
    strOne = Convert.ToString(charOne);
    strOne = strOne.Trim(trimChar);
    intTmp = Convert.ToInt32(strOne);
It eats it again... same way... same exception...

And that is as far as I get.

Is there a smart way to do this?

Cheers!

SDAuggie...

Well,
Thanks for your massive amount of support ideas and encouragement.

This is what I did to solve my problem, which BTW figured out an hour after posting my original message...


int [,] intayToInt = new int[100000, 2];
char [] charTemp = new char[20];
string strTemp;
string strOne;
string strTwo;
char [] trimChar = {' '};

//Loading the array of integers from the array of strings
strTemp = strayFile[0];

for(int i = 0; strTemp != null; i++)
  {
  strTemp = strayFile[i];

    if (strTemp != null)
      {
    //Operating first part of the string.
    strOne = strTemp.Substring(0,10);
    strOne = strOne.Trim(trimChar);
    intayToInt[i,0] = Convert.ToInt32(strOne);

    //Operating second part of the string.
    strTwo = strTemp.Substring(10,10);
    strTwo = strTwo.Trim(trimChar);
    intayToInt[i,1] = Convert.ToInt32(strTwo);
      }//end if
  }//end of for

return intayToInt;

sdauggie...