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SearchExpression.FormatItem

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Declaration

public static string FormatItem(Search.SearchContext ctx, Search.SearchItem item, string formatString);

Parameters

ctx SearchContext that yielded the SearchItem.
item SearchItem to select value from.
formatString Format string that mayh contain selectors.

Returns

string Returns a string where selectors have been replaced by the selected values from a given SearchItem.

Description

Take a format string and replace all selectors in it with the selected values obtained from a SearchItem.

[Description("Convert arguments to a string allowing you to format the result.")]
[SearchExpressionEvaluator(SearchExpressionType.Selector | SearchExpressionType.Text, SearchExpressionType.Iterable | SearchExpressionType.Literal | SearchExpressionType.Variadic)]
[SearchExpressionEvaluatorSignatureOverload(SearchExpressionType.Iterable | SearchExpressionType.Literal | SearchExpressionType.Variadic)]
public static IEnumerable<SearchItem> FormatItems(SearchExpressionContext c)
{
    var skipCount = 0;
    if (SearchExpression.GetFormatString(c.args[0], out var formatStr))
        skipCount++;
    var items = c.args.Skip(skipCount).SelectMany(e => e.Execute(c));
    var dataSet = SearchExpression.ProcessValues(items, null, item => SearchExpression.FormatItem(c.search, item, formatStr));
    return dataSet;
}