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Rico
Rico

Reputation: 7

VB.Net 2010 - Need to reverse order of words (not letters) of string

Happy Friday!

I have a loop that I output the string results to a label, but I want to reverse the order of words...

So instead of the label displaying:

Charlie Beta Alpha

I want it to display:

Alpha Beta Charlie

Code:

            For Each CollectionName In CollectionNames
                lblResult.Text &= vbCrLf + CStr(CollectionName.Name)
            Next

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1699

Answers (2)

Nathu
Nathu

Reputation: 262

This uses the string function Split and reverses the order before joining them. 

    Function Reverse(ByVal input As String) As String
        Return String.Join(" ", input.Split(" ").Reverse())
    End Function

Upvotes: 1

Blackwood
Blackwood

Reputation: 4534

The following function will split a string into words, reverse the words and then build a string with the reversed words.

Function ReverseWords(input As String) As String
    Dim words() As String = input.Split(" "c)
    Array.Reverse(words)
    Return String.Join(" ", words)
End Function

Note that this assumes that the words are originally separated by spaces. If they are separated by something else, you will need to adjust the arguments to the Split method.

Your comments suggest that you may simply want the reverse the values of CollectionNames. In that case, you can simply change your loop to this:

For Each CollectionName In CollectionNames
     lblResult.Text = CStr(CollectionName.Name) & vbCrLf & lblResult.Text
Next

Upvotes: 0

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