>>>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I have a string like this:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>"LastName, FirstName, MiddleName"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>and sometimes it could just be this:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>"CompanyName"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I want to add a string into these strings so they end up like this:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>"LastName DESC, FirstName DESC, MiddleName DESC"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>or:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>"CompanyName DESC"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>How would I do this in C#?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Basically this
>>>>>>

>>>>>>			string s = "LastName, FirstName, MiddleName";
>>>>>>
>>>>>>			s = s.Replace(",", " DESC,") + " DESC";
>>>>>>

>>>>>
>>>>>I don't think that works in the case of "CompanyName"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>So far this is what I have come up with (SortOrder could either be "ASC" or "DESC"):
>>>>
>>>>

            string s = "LastName, FirstName, MiddleName";
>>>>            string[] Split = s.Split(new Char[] { ',' });
>>>>
>>>>            string NewSortExpression = "";
>>>>            int i = 0;
>>>>            foreach (string st in Split)
>>>>                NewSortExpression = NewSortExpression + st + " " + SortOrder + ",";
>>>>
>>>>            // get rid of last ","
>>>>            NewSortExpression = NewSortExpression.Substring(0, NewSortExpression.Length - 1);

>>>
>>>using a stringbuilder may not be a bad idea
>>>
>>>

>>>       static void Main(string[] args)
>>>        {
>>>
>>>			string s = "LastName, FirstName, MiddleName";
>>>
>>>			string[] split = s.Split(new Char[] { ',' });
>>>
>>>			string newSortExpression;
>>>
>>>			string sortOrder = "DESC";
>>>
>>>			StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
>>>
>>>			foreach (string st in split)
>>>			{
>>>				sb.Append(st);
>>>				sb.Append(' ');
>>>				sb.Append(sortOrder);
>>>				sb.Append(',');
>>>			}
>>>
>>>
>>>			// get rid of last ","
>>>			sb.Length--;
>>>
>>>			newSortExpression = sb.ToString();
>>>			Console.WriteLine("{0}", newSortExpression);
>>>
>>>			Console.ReadLine();
>>>          
>>>        }
>>>

>>
>>Would you recommend this over the much shorter one liner?
>
>
>I would use the one-liner. But since I saw your loop. I wanted to show the StringBuilder as well

OK, thanks a lot.