How to replace the last occurence of the character in .net

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i want to replace the last occurence of <li> to add class inside it, it should look like below. <li class="last">

<li><span>Vislink Acquires Gigawave for US$6 Million </span></li>
<li><span>Newegg Offers $25 7-inch DTV</span></li>
<li><span>The Hope of Broadcasters  </span></li>
<li><span>ICANN Approves Custom Domain Extensions  </span></li>
<li><span>Sciences Ending U.S. Sales  </span></li>
<li><span>LightSquared Proposes Plan to  </span></li>
<li><span>Wimbledon Gets 3D upgrade </span></li>
<li><span>The Hope of Broadcasters  </span></li>
<li><span>LightSquared Proposes Plan to  </span></li>
<li class="last"><span> Newegg Offers $25 7-inch DTV  </span></li>

i have stored the above html in a string variable. what could i do to achieve this.

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 03 '11 at 18:50

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If you are doing this in code behind, which is what I perceive to be the case, try someting like:

    var last = htmlString.LastIndexOf("<li>");
    htmlString = htmlString.Remove(last, 4).Insert(last, "<li class=\"last\"");

answered Nov 03 '11 at 18:50

Adam Barney

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 03 '11 at 18:50

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string data = ...;
string toReplace ="<li>";
string toPlace = "<li class=\"last\">";
int idx = data.LastIndexOf(toReplace);
data = data.Remove(idx, toReplace.Length).Insert(idx, toPlace);

answered Nov 03 '11 at 18:50

Nikola Radosavljević

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 03 '11 at 18:49

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Maybe you can use jquery to achive this:

$("li:last").addClass("last")

edited Nov 03 '11 at 18:49

jrummell

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answered Nov 03 '11 at 18:48

GRGodoi

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actually i am fetching the records in html format from database, so while displaying on the page, i need to add that class, so i need to use .net – Abbas Nov 03 '11 at 18:50

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 03 '11 at 18:49

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You can do this in jQuery like this:

$("#listid li:last").addClass("last");

answered Nov 03 '11 at 18:49

James Johnson

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How to replace the last occurence of the character in .net

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