Richedit iteration

[cyberant]

Hey everyone

I'm needing to iterate through a richedit components text character by character but I only seem to be able to edit it 1 line at a time.

What is the command for this? I would have assumed it was something like richedit1.lines?

Thanks

 

[whosrdaddy]

Hi Cyberant,

the Lines property will give you one line at time, use the text property if you want all lines in one big string...

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[cyberant]

I know, but how do I now iterate through the text one character at a time?

 

[whosrdaddy]

euh,

var s : string;

....
s:=richedit1.text;
for i:=1 to length(s) do
begin
...
if s=' ' then inc(spacecount); // character = s
...
end

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[cyberant]

How do I now iterate through richedit.text one character at a time?

 

[lespaul]

euh, that's what the code above is doing!

var 
//declare a string
s : string;
i : integer;

....
//set the text in the RichEdit to the variable
s:=richedit1.text;
//from the 1 character in the string to the last character in the string do something
for i:=1 to length(s) do
begin
...
if s[i]=' ' then inc(spacecount); // character = s[i]
...
end

Leslie

 

[cyberant]

Sorry! I hadn't seen you previous post, I must be blind. I actually ended up doing it that way before I saw the post, just thought that perhaps there was an easier way handling it directly with the component.