[RESOLVED] RichTextBox Extended Find & Select

[cevem]

If you know what the pre-text and post-text are you can use basic string methods like IndexOf, LastIndexOf to find where that text is located in the string and then use SubString to get just the needed text, there is also RegEx which is best for complicated senerios and is another whole language in itself to learn, and one I picked up many years ago in classic vb using Split, that I still use occasionally, its slow but easy to use,

for example to get Funky Application - 1.0.2 from, SkinVersion{ text="Funky Application - 1.0.2" shellcmd="" }
you could pass this function the pretext of text=" and post text which is the char " .

    Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim neededText As String = GetTextBetween(lineOfText, "text=""", """")
        MessageBox.Show(neededText)
    End Sub

    Private Function GetTextBetween(MainText As String, StartText As String, EndText As String, Optional occurance As Integer = 1) As String
        If occurance < 1 Then occurance = 1
        Try
            Return MainText.Split({StartText}, StringSplitOptions.None)(occurance).Split({EndText}, StringSplitOptions.None)(0)
        Catch
            Return ""
        End Try
    End Function

Hello Edgemeal, thank you for the reply. Am totally new this... Please explain more of then.

Here is the text file: http://pastebin.com/jmCxzmYF

Thanks.