Some questions about using notepad file

[XShadow]

Hi everybody,

1- Suppose I have a notepad, and I want to know what is the number of the line which contains the word "Test"... how can I do that?

and what if more than line contain the same word? How can I show no. of all these lines??

2- Can I copy the text in the line no. (20) of the notepad to a text or label?!

Thanks,

[singularis]

Sorry XShadow, you completly misunderstand file I/O.

If you have no idea how to read and write to files then look it up (or google it)!

Computers do not work in line numbers, they work on position. for example:

open test.txt for binary as ifile
' <- The programs is at line 1 here
get blah,,ifile
' <- After the get statement the program is at line 2
close ifile

To answer your question rather than trying to read each line and check if it is "Test" you could instead read the whole file into an array with ease and then check against that. you could pretend the array index is the line number if you want

[gavio]

This answers both of your questions:

Option Explicit

Private Sub Form_Load()
    Dim intFF As Integer, lngN As Long, lngCount As Long, strLines() As String

    'change these... or not
    Dim strFileName As String: strFileName = "c:\test.txt"
    Dim strSearchedWord As String: strSearchedWord = "Test"
    Dim blnIgnoreCase As Boolean: blnIgnoreCase = True
    Dim lngLineToCopy As String: lngLineToCopy = 20

    'searching for the word...
    intFF = FreeFile

    Open Trim(strFileName) For Input As #intFF
        strLines() = Split(Input(LOF(intFF), #intFF), vbCrLf)
    Close #intFF

    Debug.Print "Lines from '" & Trim(strFileName) & "' that contains word '" & strSearchedWord & "':"

    For lngN = LBound(strLines) To UBound(strLines)
        If blnIgnoreCase Then
            If InStr(1, LCase(strLines(lngN)), LCase(strSearchedWord)) Then
                Debug.Print (lngN + 1): lngCount = lngCount + 1
            End If
        Else
            If InStr(1, strLines(lngN), strSearchedWord) Then
                Debug.Print (lngN + 1): lngCount = lngCount + 1
            End If
        End If
    Next lngN

    If lngCount = 0 Then
        Debug.Print "None!"
    End If

    'displaying the line...
    Label1.Caption = strLines((lngLineToCopy - 1))
End Sub

[XShadow]

If you have no idea how to read and write to files then look it up (or google it)!

Computers do not work in line numbers, they work on position. for example:

I read many topics about reading text from notepad file... but all of these use the code instr to find a word...

suppose that i found the word and I want to copy the whole line that contains this word into a label... how can I do that?!


gavio... thanks... i will try it

[Harsh Gupta]

Sorry XShadow, you completly misunderstand file I/O.

If you have no idea how to read and write to files then look it up (or google it)!

Computers do not work in line numbers, they work on position. for example:

open test.txt for binary as ifile
' <- The programs is at line 1 here
get blah,,ifile
' <- After the get statement the program is at line 2
close ifile

To answer your question rather than trying to read each line and check if it is "Test" you could instead read the whole file into an array with ease and then check against that. you could pretend the array index is the line number if you want

You can read a file line-by-line, using a loop till end-of-file and reading a line using Line Input filenumber, string into which you want it to read

[Harsh Gupta]

Computers do not work in line numbers, they work on position. for example:

I read many topics about reading text from notepad file... but all of these use the code instr to find a word...

suppose that i found the word and I want to copy the whole line that contains this word into a label... how can I do that?!


gavio... thanks... i will try it

In the gavio's example, when you get the word, just do:

Label1.Caption = strLines(lngN)

'or if you want to append to current caption

Label1.Caption = Label1.Caption & "  " & strLines(lngN)