>>>>>>>>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.


Using StringBuilder is for rather heavy string manipulation. The purpose is to avoid creating strings - that go on the heap and need to be recollected afterwards

But the one liner only creates one string too many