Re: [DOTNET] Converting a datatable to a string

2002-06-04 Thread Murphy, James
Heartily agree! At least so Blog/web content along those lines. :) Jim > -Original Message- > From: Peter Foreman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 3:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Converting a datatable to a string > &g

Re: [DOTNET] Converting a datatable to a string

2002-06-04 Thread Peter Foreman
--- "Marsh, Drew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This avoids the overhead of IEnumerable and IEnumerator and allows the MSJIT > will optimize away bounds checking on the array. Wow Drew! I think it is time you wrote a Scott Meyers-esque Effective .Net book. Ever considered it? I would urge you

Re: [DOTNET] Converting a datatable to a string

2002-06-04 Thread Marsh, Drew
Greg Gates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > I wrote the following routine to convert a datatable to a > string. However, I am wondering if this is the most efficient > way of doing it in .NET. > > private static string DataTableToString(DataTable table, > string delimiter) { > if (table.Rows

Re: [DOTNET] Converting a datatable to a string

2002-06-04 Thread Marina Zlatkina
Ok, in that case, you may be able to use XSL transforms to take the XML and format it. Although to be honest, I know very little about that, so maybe someone else here knows if that is possible and if so how it should be done. On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 09:38:58 -0700, Greg Gates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: [DOTNET] Converting a datatable to a string

2002-06-04 Thread Greg Gates
Hi Marina: The string representation of the data is imported into a third party payroll application. The payroll app only understands delimited strings, not XML. thanks, Greg On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 09:24:34 -0700, Marina Zlatkina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I don't know the purpose for which you

Re: [DOTNET] Converting a datatable to a string

2002-06-04 Thread Marina Zlatkina
I don't know the purpose for which you are doing this, but have you considered using the table's XML representation? You could use the DataSet GetXml method, load that into an XmlDocument, then find the node corresponding to your table, and use that. It would be much easier to query the data using

[DOTNET] Converting a datatable to a string

2002-06-04 Thread Greg Gates
Hello everyone: I wrote the following routine to convert a datatable to a string. However, I am wondering if this is the most efficient way of doing it in .NET. private static string DataTableToString(DataTable table, string delimiter) { if (table.Rows.Count == 0) {return String.Empty;} Stri