Class Converter

Contains methods that peform string to object and vice versa conversions.

Inheritance

System.Object

Converter

Namespace: FastReport.Utils

Assembly: FastReport.dll

Syntax

public static class Converter

Methods

ConvertNull(Type)

Converts null value to 0, false, empty string, depending on type.

Declaration

public static object ConvertNull(Type type)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.Type	type	The data type.

Returns

Type	Description
System.Object	The value of the type data type.

DecreasePrecision(Single, Int32)

Decreases the precision of floating-point value.

Declaration

public static float DecreasePrecision(float value, int precision)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.Single	value	The initial value.
System.Int32	precision	The number of decimal digits in the fraction.

Returns

Type	Description
System.Single	The value with lesser precision.

FromHtmlEntities(String, ref Int32, out String)

Convert &	" etc to symbol and return result as string

Declaration

public static bool FromHtmlEntities(string text, ref int position, out string result)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	String for processing
System.Int32	position	Position for processing
System.String	result	Result of processing

Returns

Type	Description
System.Boolean	True if successful

FromHtmlEntities(String, ref Int32, StringBuilder)

Convert &	" etc to symbol and return result as string

Declaration

public static bool FromHtmlEntities(string text, ref int position, StringBuilder result)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	String for processing
System.Int32	position	Position for processing
System.Text.StringBuilder	result	Append result of processing to FastString

Returns

Type	Description
System.Boolean	True if successful

FromString(String, Type)

Converts a string to an object using the specified converter.

Declaration

public static object FromString(string value, Type converterType)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	value	The string to convert.
System.Type	converterType	The type of converter.

Returns

Type	Description
System.Object	The object that contains the converted value.

FromString(Type, String)

Converts a string value to the specified data type.

Declaration

public static object FromString(Type type, string value)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.Type	type	The data type to convert to.
System.String	value	The string to convert from.

Returns

Type	Description
System.Object	The object of type specified in the type parameter that contains a converted value.

FromXml(String)

Convert the xml-compatible string to the regular one.

Declaration

public static string FromXml(string s)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	s	The string to convert.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The result string.

Remarks

This is counterpart to the ToXml(String) method.

IListToString(IList)

Converts a collection of strings to a string.

Declaration

public static string IListToString(IList list)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.Collections.IList	list	The collection to convert.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The string that contains all lines from the collection.

StringToByteArray(String)

Converts string value to byte[].

Declaration

public static byte[] StringToByteArray(string Str)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	Str	The string to convert

Returns

Type	Description
System.Byte[]	The value of the byte[] data type.

StringToFloat(String)

Converts a string value to the float.

Declaration

public static float StringToFloat(string value)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	value	The string value to convert.

Returns

Type	Description
System.Single	The float value.

Remarks

Both "." or "," decimal separators are allowed.

StringToFloat(String, Boolean)

Converts a string value to the float.

Declaration

public static float StringToFloat(string value, bool removeNonDigit)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	value	The string value to convert.
System.Boolean	removeNonDigit	Indicates whether to ignore non-digit symbols.

Returns

Type	Description
System.Single	The float value.

StringToFloat(String, String)

Converts a string value to the float.

Declaration

public static float StringToFloat(string value, string separator)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	value	The string value to convert.
System.String	separator	Decimal separator.

Returns

Type	Description
System.Single	The float value.

StringToFloat(String, String, Boolean)

Converts a string value to the float.

Declaration

public static float StringToFloat(string value, string separator, bool removeNonDigit)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	value	The string value to convert.
System.String	separator	Decimal separator.
System.Boolean	removeNonDigit	Indicates whether to ignore non-digit symbols.

Returns

Type	Description
System.Single	The float value.

StringToIList(String, IList)

Converts the string containing several text lines to a collection of strings.

Declaration

public static void StringToIList(string text, IList list)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	The string to convert.
System.Collections.IList	list	The collection instance.

StringToNameValueCollection(String)

Converts a string to NameValueCollection.

Declaration

public static NameValueCollection StringToNameValueCollection(string text)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	text	The string to convert.

Returns

Type	Description
System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection	The NameValueCollection that contains the name/value pairs.

ToString(Object)

Converts an object to a string.

Declaration

public static string ToString(object value)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.Object	value	The object to convert.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The string that contains the converted value.

ToString(Object, Type)

Converts a value to a string using the specified converter.

Declaration

public static string ToString(object value, Type converterType)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.Object	value	The object to convert.
System.Type	converterType	The type of converter.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The string that contains the converted value.

ToXml(Object)

Converts a value to xml-compatible string.

Declaration

public static string ToXml(object value)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.Object	value	The value to convert.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The result string.

ToXml(String)

Converts a string containing special symbols to the xml-compatible string.

Declaration

public static string ToXml(string s)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	s	The string to convert.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The result string.

Remarks

This method replaces some special symbols like <, > into xml-compatible form: &lt;, &gt;. To convert such string back to original form, use the FromXml(String) method.

ToXml(String, Boolean)

Converts a string containing special symbols to the xml-compatible string.

Declaration

public static string ToXml(string s, bool convertCrlf)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	s	The string to convert.
System.Boolean	convertCrlf	Determines whether it is necessary to convert cr-lf symbols to xml form.

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	The result string.