search replace text in textbox 1

[jriggs420]

I'm pretty new to C#. Currently I am trying to work with Microsoft's 2005 Visual C# express. Here's what I'm trying to accomplish:
1) Browse to a word doc on my Computer
2) Read .doc into a text box
3) Do some modifications to the contents
4) ftp revised text in .txt format to my server

I am at #3. I have the text from a Word doc into my txtbox, but can't figure out how to do some minor search/replace and text modification. What are my options on how to do this? What terms do I need to search on? Why does M$ help give me more questions than answers? Does anyone have a similar project I could look over. Please let me know if there's any additional info I left out...Thanks for any suggestions, I'm open to any solutions-
Joe

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
Marcus Aurelius

 

[JurkMonkey]

Ok Joe,

This is actually pretty simple. You've already done the hard part


lets say you want to have a replace button that will replace the word "fine" with "ok" in your textbox.

private void btnReplace_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string doc = txtDocument.Text;

doc.Replace("fine", "ok");
}

All instances of "fine" will be replaced with "ok"

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fk49wtc1.aspx

You can also do IndexOf or IndexOfAny to find a word or part of a word in your string.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k8b1470s.aspx

And finally, if you want to do more complicated searches or replaces, I would recommend you look into a Regex (regular expression).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...emtextregularexpressionsregexmemberstopic.asp

Hope that gets you started.