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• Robin

  Posted on Jan 23, 2012 (permalink)

  I needed to be able to trim leading & trailing spaces that may have been inadvertently entered by the user as part of their search criteria. I tried to find documentation on this to no avail. If there's a better way to do it, please let me know. 
  
  Until then, this is what I did...
  I used a separate button to execute the search. The onclick of that button fires this method:
  
  

     protected void FilterData(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        LoopThruFilterControls(rfPortfolios.Controls);
        rfPortfolios.FireApplyCommand();
    }

  
  
  
  And LoopThruFilterControls looks like this:
  

      private void LoopThruFilterControls(ControlCollection cc)
     {
        for (int i = 0; i < cc.Count; i++)
        {
string controlType = cc[i].GetType().Name;
if(controlType.Equals("TextBox", StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase))
{
TextBox tmp = (TextBox)cc[i];
                ((TextBox)cc[i]).Text = tmp.Text.Trim();
                }
                LoopThruFilterControls(cc[i].Controls);
        }
    }

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• Princy MVP

  Posted on Jan 24, 2012 (permalink)

  Hello,
  
  I have tried the following code after accessing the TextBox and it worked as expected.
  C#:
  

   string t= textbox.Text;

   string s = t.Trim();

   text.Text = s;

  
  Hope it helps.
  
  Thanks,
  Princy.

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