Protecting Text In A Find / Replace Action
Oct 9, 2010I have been wondering about this for a long time and have not found any ways to do this other than write my own text editor for it. Regarding the following lines of
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I have been wondering about this for a long time and have not found any ways to do this other than write my own text editor for it. Regarding the following lines of
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I have a bunch of object variables which are all initialised in their declarations such that:
Private _myObject As New ThisObject("SomeString")
where ThisObject is one of a number of object types, but all are initialised using a string.
I would like to use the Visual Studio Find/Replace dialog box to search for "As New" then replace everything from "As New" to the first set of speech marks with some text such that:
EDIT
My original example could be solved using other methods. This example is more representative of the actual problem:
Private _myObjectA As New ThisObjectA("SomeString")
Private _myObjectLongName As New ThisObjectLongName("SomeString")
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I have a XML file. Inside the XML file where ever I find the string as ("C:Results est1_01") I need to replace it with ("B:final est1_01") and save it.
View 1 RepliesI am making a program for work, i have it partly coded, unfortunately i don't have a wifi connection for my laptop right now which makes it hard to add my code here. What i am trying to do is have the user pull in a text file from anywhere on the computer using a open file box that pops up, i got that part, to make sure that is working i have a textbox that reads the data of that text file, it gets pulled in fine using a stream reader. Now what i need to do is search the text file for certain values, and depending on the selected item in the listbox which is on another form, change that value in the text file, im guessing i will need to use a stream writer, and ive seen examples used based on the file location(C:....) but in my case im not sure how to do it.
View 15 RepliesI am using Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition, my goal is to read an entire .txt file that works as a template and replace all ocurances of a word with a new one and save this new modified text in a new .txt when you press a command button.
View 2 RepliesI have a project to complete and i have begun the code. What i want to do is go through the text file and find evey | (pipe) symbol and change it to a , (comma). I have the code and worked out how to do it but the code will only work for the first line. I was just wondering whether any of you had any advice on the way through this problem because i am stumped.
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As_ System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim strFile As String
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I have a small app for find and replace text in a richtextbox:
1-One button: Replace
2-Textbox1 : Find
3-Textbox2 : Replace for
But I want to know if is possible find and replace the text in the richtextbox with a xml file example:
Text in the richtextbox: "I will buy a car"
XML:
<pre lang="vb">
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If is possible please can you give me a example code?
I am attempting to make a text editor. I have a folder which contains hundreds of text files. I would like to search through all files simultaneously, for some text then replace the text with other text & save, & overwrite originals. I've got most of the basic structure done, but I've go no idea how to search for text in all files in a folder.
View 13 RepliesI am trying to open up a text file that contains some text. I have 3 text boxes on my screen. What I need to figure out is how to replace multiple words (1 in each textbox) with text it finds in the txt file.
I can do this by using the single find / replace feature but I'm trying to be able to fill out the 3 textboxes and then click my find / replace button to have my Regex find each predefined word and replace it with what is in the text boxes.
Here is my code to get the find / replace one word at time feature. I've tinkered with this to just add more variables to my Regex but it doesn't seem to work.
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lswScriptreader =
New System.IO.StreamReader("test.txt", System.Text.Encoding.Default)
lswScriptwriter = File.AppendText("test1.txt")[code]....
Hex(D1) is my column Terminator and need to replace it with ",".
I have a program that will read a text file and put information from the text file into multiple text boxes. What I am trying to do now is be able to change the values in the textboxes and be able to write the specifc changes back to the text file. One way I though of doing that was using a while loop and copy the lines of the text file to another text file, then when it finds the line that has the specific change from the text box, make the change and continue writing the line until it reaches the end of the file. Then I was going to copy the file and overwrite the original, escientally making the change to the new file. Right now it will make the new file but will just make a blank text file. I think the problem is in the while loop statement but I am not sure. Here is the code below:
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Private Sub submitButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles submitButton.Click
Dim trackname As String
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I have to find a string in a huge text file ( ~ 50MB) and then replace it.Since it's quite huge I tend to open the file and then read line by line, and then replace the necessary line(s) (rather than "readall" the file of course).My question is how to replace the whole line?Let's say I found the line that should be replaced . I know I can create a copy file and copy all lines into there ... but I'd prefer to replace the line in the original file rather than creating a copy instance.
View 5 Repliesi am trying to figure out the code for a button for application where i take test from a richtextbox read it and change the color and font i have made the application for it, with 3 buttons. find, find next and replace.
frmTextEditorMain.rtbxInput.SelectionBackColor = Color.White
frmTextEditorMain.rtbxInput.Find(tbxFind.Text)
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First it might sound like an ordinary task but keep reading it isn't. I can't figure out how to find a phrase in a text file, and replace it with something else. Tried lots of things but always ending up with empty hands.
Suppose there's a text file in this order:
valueabc=6000.0000
valuettt=200.0000
valuexyz=7000.0000
I want to;
1) Find the phrase (e.g. valueabc) by scanning the whole text,
2) Replace the number that starts after "=" and ends before ".", namely "6000" in the middle with any number value i want.
I don't need the parts before "=" and after ".", only the number in the middle.
1) a text document which has content like :
uber|uber|ultra
taxi|taxi|taxi cab|cab|minicab|airport taxi|airport transfer
genitalia|genitalia|genitals
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I would like to step through each *.txt file in a given directory, open it, find and replace all, perhaps a thousand, occurances of a given string (e.g. "00/00/00"), then close and save file, and step to next one in the directory to do the same find and replace. I've been looking at filestream classes and regular expressions but don't see a clear way to do this.
View 4 RepliesI have this code attached to a button
If htmlText.Contains("<frame src='demo.html'/>") Then
htmlText = htmlText.Text.Replace("<frame src="demo.html/>", "<frame src='" &
OpenStory.FileName)
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I have a racing game that I play and I am trying to create a program to edit parts of the tracks.text file. Here is what one looks like:[code...]
View 5 RepliesI have thios code that will load a php file (text file) into a sting via streamreader then its supposed to find and replace a portion of the text and write the changes back out to the file via streamwriter. I put my code together and after running it look at the file and it's unchanged. After looking closer it appears the problem is the find & replace operation I am doing on the string. Here is my code:
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how to replace a string in a datagridview with another string?
e.g I have a column which has texts "Text1","Text2" that repeate many times in the column. How can I search-replace "Text1" with "anothertext1" and "Text2" with "anothertext2"?
I searched in datagridview members but I didn't find how to do it.
The user enters a numerical value in textbox1 and click search. This searches for this value using PackageIO (any other options you guys think would be faster would be great) and will return how many instances of that value have been found. There is a second textbox and button that will only be enabled if 1 instance is found. If more than one instance is found, an error message pops up. I'm not too experienced with PackageIO. Here is what I have so far. The program crashes every single time. I'm positive there is something wrong with either part of it or the whole thing.[code]...
View 5 RepliesI'm trying to do a 'find/replace' sort of thing, but for some reason the Replace function isn't working. It says it cannot be indexed because it has no default property. How do I do the replace correctly?ere's my
Dim aString As String
aString = Replace(DirectCast(Form1.SplitContainer1.ActiveControl, RichTextBox).Text, Me.TextBox1.Text, Me.TextBox2.Text)
I need it to act as a "find next"...meaning that
1. When I click the find button,
2. In the main form, it should find the text
3. And when I click it again
4. It should find the same text again ..if it's in the main form
How to write the loop. This is what I have so far:
Private Sub xFindButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles xFindButton.Click
Dim startPos As Integer
startPos = xTxtSourceTextBox.Text.IndexOf(Me.xFindTextBox.Text) ', type)
If startPos = 0 Then
Me.xTxtSourceTextBox.Focus()
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a datacontext defined in a module(domain services ado.net ria)a page having add/delete methods whenever any method is executed, it is found that all the previous actions (NEW RECORD ADDITION and DELETION OF RECORDS) are carried out before the new action is carried out normally
this behaviour is not prominent but "when using break points and inspecting the values of the variables and table object to be added to context, it is clear that all the previous actions take place again. even when the datacotext. savechanges is called, even after that still all actions carried out on the datacontext repeat themseleves, when any new action is to be carried out
How to create a find and replace dialog using microsoft visual basic 2008 express edition
View 1 RepliesI have a Ms-word document in a particular Location. I need to open the document find a particular sentence and replace my sentence using vb.net....
View 1 RepliesImports Word = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word
Dim str_FullName = "Microsoft Corporation"
Dim oWordApp As New Word.Application
oWordApp.Visible = true
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I'm not sure why the code won't work... It opens the document without problems, it just won't find and replace the text. No, I did NOT typo the text it's supposed to be finding. I copied and pasted it straight out of the word document.
Im working on a Winforms application that reads an XML file containing html templates and generates some html to send to another application.Each template will have about 25 values to replace.I thought about using the String.Replace method for this but wanted to get some ideas from the people here.
View 10 RepliesI have some text files that contain
<img width="100" or
<img width="1400" or....
How could i replace all above with the following, since the image width is not static?
<img width="200"
I want to program a find and replace for text files
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