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Increment a string with both letters and numbers except it increments only the numbers in the string, I want to increment both numbers and letters and only to letters and numbers, and not to anything else like ;+-*:=
characters.
Examples:
Z006GZYBA1 => Z006GZYBA2
A9 => AA
AZ => B0
1ZZZZZZZZZ => 2000000000
EDIT: What I've tried:
public static string IncrementString(this string input)
{
string rtn = "A";
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(input))
{
bool prependNew = false;
var sb = new StringBuilder(input.ToUpper());
for (int i = (sb.Length - 1); i >= 0; i--)
{
if (i == sb.Length - 1)
{
var nextChar = Convert.ToUInt16(sb[i]) + 1;
if (nextChar > 90)
{
sb[i] = 'A';
if ((i - 1) >= 0)
{
sb[i - 1] = (char)(Convert.ToUInt16(sb[i - 1]) + 1);
}
else
{
prependNew = true;
}
}
else
{
sb[i] = (char)(nextChar);
break;
}
}
else
{
if (Convert.ToUInt16(sb[i]) > 90)
{
sb[i] = 'A';
if ((i - 1) >= 0)
{
sb[i - 1] = (char)(Convert.ToUInt16(sb[i - 1]) + 1);
}
else
{
prependNew = true;
}
}
else
{
break;
}
}
}
rtn = sb.ToString();
if (prependNew)
{
rtn = "A" + rtn;
}
}
return rtn.ToUpper();
}
This should work (method is IncrementBase36()
but I put it in a console app for demo purposes):
using System;
namespace Demo
{
class Program
{
static void Main()
{
Console.WriteLine(IncrementBase36("Z006GZYBA1"));
Console.WriteLine(IncrementBase36("A9"));
Console.WriteLine(IncrementBase36("AZ"));
Console.WriteLine(IncrementBase36("1ZZZZZZZZZ"));
}
public static string IncrementBase36(string numberBase36)
{
var digits = numberBase36.ToCharArray();
bool carry = true;
for (int i = digits.Length - 1; i >= 0; --i)
{
if (carry)
{
if (digits[i] == 'Z')
{
digits[i] = '0';
}
else
{
if (digits[i] == '9')
digits[i] = 'A';
else
++digits[i];
carry = false;
}
}
}
if (carry)
return '1' + new string(digits);
else
return new string(digits);
}
}
}