I have the following text, it displays like this in a textbox, but is all stored in one string:
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But I cant think of a way to do it, the only thing I can think is to try and grab the text on the line after each "+CMGR:"
I'm trying to identify a specific string within a text file, and then extra a couple of bits of information that follow from that.
Example snippet from text file:
>Date 5.3: Tech Manual {30201}
Freya Plumes (30201) - 1
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These are made from brightly coloured. I want to be able to find where it says "Tech Manual", and then assign "Freya Plumes", "30201" and "1" to variables for manipulating and exporting to another file. There will be many instances from the same text file with similar information, so I'd need the extracted strings popped into an array for later referencing.
The method I'm currently using to extract html and the parse is via a WebBrowser control.I'm grabbing a collection of tags, sorting through the ones I want, and then pulling the innertext.Doing this on my development machine is kind of slow, but manageable. At max, I can go through 60 different web pages across 3 different sites. It takes about 5 mins on my machine.
However, this app is targeted towards machine that have a quarter of the technology that my computer has. So, it takes anywhere from 10-15 minutes. This is less than ideal.I've bee reading up on the documentation on HTTPWebRequest. However, form what I've seen I can't seem to find a way to grab the HTML and then parse it with a method from HTTPWebRequest.
Due to the way I'll be using it, I won't be able to use RegEx to parse the data and was hoping there was a method within the HTTPWebRequest property to do it.
I have a lot of information distributed among some tables in a database (and must likely it will all be represented into oop). I will need to create text files with different formats from the same data depending on the request. My idea is to create a design that will require no coding if such formats are to change of be added.I was thinking in using some sort of XML magic trick to accomplish this but I have no idea how to. I am also open to new ideas.
View 1 RepliesI want to extract a specific information from a webpage.For example:url...So can I make the software see what's between "<h1>Your IP address is<BR>", to "</h1>"?And doing all this by using the webbrowser form in Visual basic studio 2008.
View 1 RepliesI am trying to take specific information from a web page and then process that information so that it can be sent to a label or text box.Previously, I had wanted to do this by using Regular Expressions. I've looked around and it seems that using regular expressions to parse information isn't always the best way because website aren't always coded to standards.Regardless, learning regex isn't working out too well for me. So, I was wondering if there was another way to do this?I was thinking that I might be able to use the web browser control. It would be ideal to be able to see the page in the form, select the information, and then be able to display it.
View 8 RepliesThe method I'm currently using to extract html and the parse is via a WebBrowser control. I'm grabbing a collection of tags, sorting through the ones I want, and then pulling the innertext.
Doing this on my development machine is kind of slow, but manageable. At max, I can go through 60 different web pages across 3 different sites. It takes about 5 mins on my machine.
However, this app is targeted towards machine that have a quarter of the technology that my computer has. So, it takes anywhere from 10-15 minutes. This is less than ideal.
Does anyone know of any other method that I could do that would take less resources and perform a lot quicker?
I'm currently using a webbrowser control to extract information from multiple websites. At any given time, my application could be searching through 1-80 different webpages across 1-4 different websites. On my computer, it runs pretty quick. I could go through all 80 sites in just a few minutes. But when on another machine with fewer resouces, it runs awfully slow. Taking up to 15 minutes. Which kind of beats the purpose, but not entirely, of my application.
I'll begin by explaining my methods, and go from there. When utilizing the Webbrowser control, I use While statements and Application.DoEvents, instead of the Webbrowser controls's DocumentCompleted event. I'm wondering if this is one thing that could be slowing down the process. Though I'm not sure why it would be. Also, would utilizing separate threads help with this? I can't imagine it would boost performance. But I'm not entirely sure. I think it bogs down because the application uses so much memory when running. On idle, the application uses about 9.5k memory. When running, I've seen it go as high as 110k.
I want to extract some information from a web site (Bloomberg). This side has a search textbox with a onKeyUp event that, as far as I can understand, uses AJAX to create a table. Is it possible to insert some text in the textbox and then get the table created with AJAX? Given the source code of the page with the tabled already AJAXed (If you understand what I want to say here), I can easily retrieve the table. I just need to get the source code with the table already on it.
View 7 RepliesI'd like to look into extracting EXIF tags/data from jpg images. I've looked around but can't seem to see any simple example. Anyone able to point me into the direction of pulling out the model/date values etc out of EXIF data?
View 2 RepliesMy university has a website that students can use to check stuff like their lesson schedules, latest grades, exam times, etc. Just general information about you and your study (after you have logged in of course).For interested, this is the website (not much use without a login obviously, but still): [URL]I have been thinking lately that it would be nice to have a desktop application that could give me the same information. However, I have absolutely no idea how that would work, and whether or not it is even possible. I mean, technically it should be possible for me to get the information (how else does the website get it) provided it is not secured (even when using the correct login details). I am sure the website communicates with a database somewhere. Does that mean I could theoretically also communicate with the database (probably: read from it only, not write) for example by executing queries?If that is possible, how do I figure out which queries to use for the different pieces of information? Obviously I don't know the details of the database so I can't just send a random query and expect it to work...
View 8 RepliesI'm trying to get the version of IE and Google Chrome from the registry. I've successfully been able to get IE, but it seems chrome is eluding me.The following code is what I'm trying:
vb.net
Public Sub ChromeVersion()
Dim SoftwareKey As String = "HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareGoogleUpdateClients{8A69D345-D564-
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I was just wondering how to extract or parse any particual tags (whichever I specify) from webpages. I know how to extract text and links from webpages, but I tried to use the same method from the following code for div tags, title tags etcetera and it doesn't seem to work:
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I'm trying to create a small program, which I think will be helpful to others(in here). My aim is to convert the English text shown in screen to Malayalam. English-to-Malayalam conversion is not a problem. But the problem is, how to extract the text from the screen. In most of the converter/translator, the text needs to be copied or written down in the translator tool. But my program will cut off that part. That is, simply move the program window (having a rectangle hollow portion) to the English word that needs to be converted. And upon pressing a button (or autodetect), the English word is converted to Malayalam.
So, my question is how to extract the English text(or words) from the screen (which is seen through the hollow portion of the window.
Here's a screenshot of what I'm trying to do.
I realize this may be a simple request, but I am fairly new to VB so even the simplest tasks are sometimes over my head. Basically, what I need is a function that will take a URL from one of the text boxes on my form, and extract a certain piece of text from that URL. The problem, for me, lies in the fact that the text in question isn't always in the same position, character wise, every time. Basically, the URL looks something like this:
url...randomNumbers rarely seems to be the same amount of characters each time, however the randomNumbersINeed always appear after the second underscore and end right before the third underscore, no matter the amount of randonNumbers that appears before hand.The process I am working on does the following:
1. Takes the raw URL that I have pasted into a text box on the form.
2. Declares that text as a string.
3. Extracts randomNumbersINeed from that string
4. Assigns or declares randomNumbersINeed as a string
5. Appends that string to a .txt file.
I can do steps 1, 2, 4, and 5 with no problem, in fact I've already got those set up in my code ready to go. I just need a function that could extract the numbers from the URL.Could someone help me out here or point me in the right direction?
I have one text file with few thousand lines of information. Out of few thousand lines, few hundred lines are something like:
Copy "\server1C$abc.msi" C:windowsinstaller1abc.msi
Copy "D: empxyz.msi" c:windowsinstallermissing.msi
Now it is really hard to find manually all those statement which starts with "copy ".I would like to create another new text file with all those statements which starts with "Copy".
Im trying to get certain text from a webpage and display it in a textbox. In the image below , i want to disply all the text after "Filename:" in a textbox as highlighted below.
View 16 RepliesI am trying to extract text from an htm file (output.htm) to write into an SQL database.
I used "pdftotxt" to re-write the original pdf document into an htm file, in 'raw' format, and end up with lines like this:
Sun20
Off
0330
0329
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What I am trying to do, using the above example, is to look for anywhere in the list where a date(e.g Mon24) is followed by lines containing KL ####, and to extract the date and the KL #### for writting to a database.
It seems like a huge task that is way beyond my limited capabilities, so I would be very grateful for some sample code in VBasic.
what is the command line to single out certain parts of text from a string only..for example string = "Hellodullardtomboy".what is the command to capture only the word "DULL" between "hello" and "ardtomboy" only.
View 5 RepliesI am trying to extract numbers from string text. e.g. 1 day (8 hours)' I need the one and the eight integers pulled out I would like to extract then store each number separately for use later. I am aware of techniques to count string text, but not pulling certain information from it.
View 7 RepliesI am trying to extract text from a .pptx file. I am able to extract from all other shapes except a shape that is identified as a msoPicture to right click on this shape in powerpoint and ungroup it, but when I try to do this from code it tell me that the ungroup method only applied to group shapes.I did some research and found out that the msopicture shape comes from a .emf file but I don't have the least idea how to ungroup this shape or get the text from it through code.NB: When I right click on the shape in powerpoint and select ungroup a message box pops up saying "This is an imported picture, not a group. Do you want to convert it to a Microsoft Office drawing object?". But I cannot seem to find a way in code to convert this shape to Ms Office drawing object.
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to extract the text between: <label for=field_1> and </label> I have captured the HTML into a string using the webbrowser control, and am using the following function to try and get the text within the tag:Public Function midReturn(ByVal first As String, ByVal last As String, ByVal total As String) As String
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However, this code will not work, if I use <label for=field_1> as the first string and </label> as the second.
basically i have heap loads of text in a sting.I want to be able to extract text between two point in my string.So say for example want to be able to extract the text between the two brackets.
View 10 RepliesExtracting highlighted text from a text box
View 1 Replies1. allow the user to specify a folder in which to find a specific text files,
2. to read a few specific numbers within each of those few text files, (eg. in txt file A, #A = '1', in txt file B, #B = '2', etc)
3. place those numbers into multiple comboboxes, (eg '1' into CB1, '2' into CB2, etc)
4. allow the user to change the number from the combobox drop down list, (eg CB1 change to '2', CB2 change to '1', etc)
5. Click to overwrite the old numbers in the text file with the new numbers and save the text files
My main problem is no. 2, how do I read a specific string in the text file and display it in the combobox?(Win XP, MS Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition with sp1)
On the main form of my application, I have a Rich Text Box which is where the user will be entering information. The text is black. then, i have a button which calls the dialogue "Notes" A dialogue appears, with a rich text box. the user should then be able to enter text into the box, click "OK", and the text entered into the Notes dialogue be inserted to the rich text box on the main form -- with the font colour "Red". The rest of the text in the main rich text box on the main form should remain black.
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to extract the text fields inbetween the code but the text is always changing so I'm not sure how to keep this dynamic. In put them in to the proper text boxes.
So text box 1 might be Date: then it pulls the date.
and there are multiple listings. so I need it to loop until the end of </table>
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Basically this is my problem, showing the results of a string. I am making a program for a customer and he wants to be able to extract a string or set of emails from a large group of text. In this case he wants to be able to copy a webpage and extract all the emails out of the webpage. The problem i am having is showing the results of the List(of string) Function. So far, I can copy the page, paste the content to a textbox and then i have a function that is supposed to filter out the emails and paste or Show them in a list box.
I dont know why but no matter what I do I always get this error:
Error1Value of type 'System.Collections.Generic.List(Of String)' cannot be converted to 'String'.
This happens when I try to output the return results to a textbox or list box.
Here is the code for the whole program:
Entire Program Code:
Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
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I have tried almost everything I could do, I am relatively new to string functions so that is my main problem.
[code]The two parts I've coloured red change, I need to grab the first part which is the link but I'm not sure how to do this. I've used regex before and it doesn't look possible to use it on this on this, there's about 25 of these in the source.
View 11 RepliesI have a text file I'm trying to pull specific data from to make a report in excel and am wanting to know if my code can be improved or if I have something wrong. If it's apparent to anyone that I should be doing something elThis code does work but, very slow. These reports take up to 20 minutes for about 100 files so I am wanting to decrease the time somehow. I have attached the whole sub in a text file, it's about 900 lines long so don't think I should post all of it. This is one part that seems to take the longest:Partial code that reads the text into a string, then each line is read to find whether it holds the data or not. Inside this while loop, I am checking numerous lines to see what they hold and extract specific items. First I verify it's a interface by checking for "line protocol".
Dim str As StreamReader = File.OpenText(filefound)
While (str.Peek <> -1)
If txtLine.Contains("line protocol") = True Then 'Found an interface,
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