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code to get the first character of the words in Combo box in C#

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  1 month ago

  by dwaipeyan

  dwaipeyan

  Chennai, India

  Joined 3 years ago

   

  Hello Gurus,

  Can any body help me with the C# code to get the first character of the words for selected element from drop down Combo box.

   

  Thanks,

  RN

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  1 month ago

  by CAMURPHY

  Craig Murphy

  Scotland, UK, United Kingdom

  Joined 3 years ago

  Given a comboBox and a textBox, this might help you:

  private void comboBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)

  {

    String selectedItem = comboBox1.SelectedItem.ToString();

    textBox1.Text = selectedItem.Substring(0, selectedItem.IndexOf(" "));

  }

  HTH

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  1 month ago

  by Mohammad Rastkar

  Mohammad Rastkar

  Shiraz, Iran

  Joined 2 years ago

  Just one issue, when you have less than two words : an exception, because 'IndexOf()' returns '-1'. You can use 'Split()' to do it properly :

  textBox1.Text = selectedItem.Split(' ')[0];

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  1 month ago

  by CAMURPHY

  Craig Murphy

  Scotland, UK, United Kingdom

  Joined 3 years ago

  We are both wrong!   I misread the original question :-)

  The code should be:

  String selectedItem = comboBox1.SelectedItem.ToString();

  string[] a = selectedItem.Split(' ');

  textBox2.Text = "";

  foreach (string s in a)

  {

    textBox2.Text = textBox2.Text + s.Substring(0, 1);

  }

  HTH

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