Multiselect listbox separator

[flaviu_xdv]

Hello everybody!

I have encountered a problem and I didn't manage to find any soultions yet. Let me simplify things a bit.

I have 2 forms, the first contains an ASP ListBox with multi select mode enabled. I submit the form and in the other form I use just for testing purposes this snippet of code:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            foreach (string formKey in Request.Form.AllKeys)
            {
                if (formKey != null)
                {
                    if (formKey.Equals("ctl00$MainContent$ListBox1"))
                        Label1.Text = Request.Form[formKey];
                }
            }  
        }

The problems is that the values that come from the listbox (the values that i selected in the previous form) are separated by "," for ex. "test1,test2,test3". How can i change this separator to "$" for example? I need to change it because the actual values may contain "," and i don't manualy feed them to the listbox.

I can't use any other mode of transfering this values between the form because the entire application uses this model. The values that i get are then sent to a workflow where there will be manipulated and in the workflow i need to know where each listbox item starts and ends so it must be an unique separator.

Any help is apreciated! Thank you very much

[hericles]

Can't you simply do a string replace() on the resulting string to get the separator character you want?

[flaviu_xdv]

Yes but this will also replace the intended "," if there is any in the actual values, so it must be something else done before the values are sent.