finding text in quotes

hi... i'm trying to make a compiler, with my own syntax... so far i have two textboxes and a button, just for a test. under the button:

dim startwrite as integer
if lcase(mid(textbox1.text, 1, 4)) = "text" then
startwrite = startwrite + 7
textbox2.text = mid(textbox1.text, startwrite)
end if

but i want multi line syntax, such as

cap "hello, world!";
text "hello, world!";
var name;
get name; nextline;
text "hello, " name;

something like that for my syntax... but i cant figure out how to do it! i think it has something to do with the start point, and having multi line syntax, but im not sure... any help would be appreciated!!! :p

Visual Basic.Net's Textbox has another property called Lines. It's an array of strings that each member of it contains one line of the Textbox's text. You can use it like:

Dim i As Integer
Dim startwrite As Integer

For i=0 to Textbox1.Lines.Getupperbound(0)
If Lcase(Mid(Textbox1.Lines(i), 1, 4)) = "text" Then
startwrite = startwrite + 7
Textbox2.Text = Mid(Textbox1.Lines(i), startwrite)
'For multi line support for Textbox2:
'Textbox2.Text = Textbox2.Text & Mid(Textbox1.Lines(i), startwrite) & vbNewLine
End If
Next i

Don't let the Getupperbound function scares you! It accepts the number of a dimension in an array and returns index of the last item in that dimension.

Good luck,jazzyfunk