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How to remove duplicates from a string? [closed]

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The code is supposed to put all letters into lower case and change j to i, which it does. But I'm trying to take out any duplicate letters.
example inputted string = jjjaaaMMM expected output string = jam
what actually happens real output string = m please help I'm not sure what I'm missing.
string key = Secret.Text;
var keyLow = key.ToLower();
var newKey = keyLow.Replace("j", "i");
var set = new HashSet<char>(newKey);
foreach (char c in set)
{
Secret.Text = Char.ToString(c);
}

Your issue is entirely the = in
Secret.Text = Char.ToString(c);
it needs to be +=
Secret.Text += Char.ToString(c);
You were overwriting each value with the next.
However you could just use linq
Secret.Text = string.Concat(key.ToLower().Replace("j", "i").Distinct());
or probably more efficiently from #Ben Voigt comments
Since you have a sequence of char, it's probably more efficient to
call the string constructor than Concat
Secret.Text = new string(set.ToArray());
// or
Secret.Text = new string(key.ToLower()
.Replace("j", "i")
.Distinct()
.ToArray());
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String.Concat Method
Concatenates one or more instances of String, or the String
representations of the values of one or more instances of Object.
Enumerable.Distinct Method
Returns distinct elements from a sequence.

Others may answer the question directly. I'll provide an alternative. As always with string manipulation, there's a Regex for that.
var output = Regex.Replace(input, #"(.)\1*", "$1");

You can use Linq approach:
var text = key.ToLower().Distinct().ToArray();
Don't forgot add using System.Linq

How to extract string between same char [closed]

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I have a string "ABD-DDD-RED-Large" and need to extract "DDD-RED"
using the Split I have:
var split = "ABD-DDD-RED-Large".Split('-');
var first = split[0];
var second = split[1];
var third = split[2];
var fourth = split[3];
string value = string.Join("-", second, third);
just wondering if there's a shorter code

If you just want the second and third parts of an always 4 part (delimited by -) string you can one line it with LINQ:
string value = string.Join("-", someInputString.Split('-').Skip(1).Take(2));
An input of: "ABD-DDD-RED-Large" would give you an output of: "DDD-RED"

Not enough information. You mentioned that string is not static. May be Regex?
string input = "ABD-DDD-RED-Large";
string pattern = #"(?i)^[a-z]+-([a-z]+-[a-z]+)";
string s = Regex.Match(input, pattern).Groups[1].Value;

Use regex
var match = Regex.Match(split, #".*?-(.*?-.*?)-.*?");
var value = match.Success ? match.Groups[1].Value : string.Empty;

I'm going out on a limb and assuming your string is always FOUR substrings divided by THREE hyphens. The main benefit of doing it this way is that it only requires the basic String library.
You can use:
int firstDelIndex = input.IndexOf('-');
int lastDelIndex = input.LastIndexOf('-');
int neededLength = lastDelIndex - firstDelIndex - 1;
result = input.Substring((firstDelIndex + 1), neededLength);
This is generic enough to not care what any of the actual inputs are except the hyphen character.
You may want to add a catch at the start of the method using this to ensure there are at least two hyphen's in the input string before trying to pull out the requested substring.

how do you take a string then organize the words in it with how many times the word occurs in c#? [closed]

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ok I have no idea on how to do this and i have tried looking up how to do this but nothing good came up so ill ask it here. So what i am trying to do is:
string input = TextEditor.text; <-- this is in windows form application and
The "TextEditor" is the textbox for input
i want to take the string (which is input from the texct box) then split it so each word is on every other line like so:
if input = "hi my name is is"
out put should be:
hi: 1
my: 1
name: 1
is: 2 <-- if the word is said it shouldn't be repeated.
could someone please help me? I am a true newbie and i am completely lost. I don't have any code yet because I DONT KNOW HOW TO DO THIS!

Use Linq GroupBy and Count:
string inputText = "hi my name is is";
var words = inputText.Split(' ').ToList();
var wordGroups = words.GroupBy(w => w).Select(grp => new {
Word = grp.Key,
Count = grp.Count()
});
string outputText = string.Join("\n", wordGroups.Select(g => string.Format("{0}:\t{1}", g.Word, g.Count)));
/*
hi: 1
my: 1
name: 1
is: 2
*/

Split the input string into an array, then use that to build a dictionary. If the word is already in the dictionary, increment it. Otherwise add it with an initial value of 1.
string input = TextEditor.text;
string[] inputWords = input.Split(' ');
Dictionary<string, int> wordCounts = new Dictionary<string, int>();
foreach (string word in inputWords)
{
if (wordCounts.ContainsKey(word))
{
wordCounts[word]++;
}
else
{
wordCounts.Add(word, 1);
}
}

Regex Specified argument was out of the range of valid values [closed]

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I am trying to do Regex from a website url, but it gets me an error:
Specified argument was out of the range of valid values
Regex re = new Regex("\"id\":\"([0 - 9] +)\"");
string ree = re.Matches(sr)[0].Value;
MessageBox.Show(ree);
The url output is just blank page with text. http://prntscr.com/a6xyi0

You have to move all the spaces you don't want match, you can use [0-9]+ or \d+
You can iterate over all matches for every id in the string:
Regex re = new Regex("\"id\":\"(?<id>\\d+)\"");
string[] ree = re.Matches(sr).Cast<Match>().Select(m => m.Value).ToArray();
// Or if you just want the id:
string[] ree = re.Matches(sr).Cast<Match>().Select(m => m.Groups["id"].Value).ToArray();
foreach (var item in ree)
{
//do something
}
EDIT:
If you want add the results to a ListView then this should work for you:
var sr = "{\"id\":\"11111\", ...} {\"id\":\"22222\", ...} {\"id\":\"33333\", ...} {\"id\":\"44444\", ...}";
Regex re = new Regex("\"id\":\"(?<id>\\d+)\"");
var ree = re.Matches(sr).Cast<Match>().Select(m => m.Groups["id"].Value);
foreach (var item in ree)
{
var lvItem = new ListViewItem(new string[] { item, "who column" });
listView.Items.Add(lvItem);
}
And you will get some like this:

Extract the first two words from a string with C# [closed]

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I guys im trying to workout C# code to extract the first two words from string. below is code im doing.
public static string GetDetailsAsString(string Details)
{
string Items = //how to get first 2 word from string???
if (Items == null || Items.Length == 0)
return string.Empty;
else
return Items;
}

Define "words", if you want to get the first two words that are separated by white-spaces you can use String.Split and Enumerable.Take:
string[] words = Details.Split();
var twoWords = words.Take(2);
If you want them as separate string:
string firstWords = twoWords.First();
string secondWord = twoWords.Last();
If you want the first two words as single string you can use String.Join:
string twoWordsTogether = string.Join(" ", twoWords);
Note that this simple approach will replace new-line/tab characters with empty spaces.

Assuming the words are separated by whitespaces:
var WordsArray=Details.Split();
string Items = WordsArray[0] + ' ' + WordsArray[1];