Parsing text

[safewithyou247]

I have a form that has a textbox where I want users to copy a pre-defined template into. The template will look something like this:

First Name: Bla
Last Name: Bla-Bla
Email: [email protected]

and so on. What I want to do is then read through this text line by line and put each description into seperate variables. How do I accomplish this?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[gigemboy]

Why dont you just have them enter the text into three seperate textboxes?? Saves you from having to parse it out, as each one would be in its own textbox...

[jmcilhinney]

As Gig suggests, seperate controls is more appropriate. You should use three Labels and three TextBoxes. It would then be easy to validate the format of the e-mail address using a Regex as well. If you are determined to use a single TextBox then you would use the Lines property, which is an array of strings that is basically the Text split on line breaks.

[safewithyou247]

Can you give me an example of how I would use the lines feature to accoplish this?

As far as the individual text boxs that will come later this is something for a type of automation.

Thanks

[gigemboy]

The lines is just a property of the textbox... it is a string array... you just refer to the index of the line you want... like below:

MessageBox.Show(TextBox1.Lines(0))
        MessageBox.Show(TextBox1.Lines(1))