I would suggest you post this question to the Word/Office newsgroups. This
is not an ASP.Net-related question.
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Kevin Spencer
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"j" <j_mcmullin76@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1603d3ce.0307220740.1037a9c2@posting.google.c om...[color=blue]
> Hi,
> I've been trying to do line/character counts on documents that are
> being uploaded. As well as the "counting" I also have to remove
> certain sections from the file.
> So, firstly I was working with uploaded MS WORD .doc files. Using code
> like that below:
>
> strLine = sr.ReadLine
> While Not IsNothing(strLine) 'Not eof
> If Trim(strLine) <> "" Then 'Not blank
> 'increment counter & capture line text
> lc += 1
> sbFileContent.Append(strLine + vbCr) 'Put CR into string to mark
> line break
> End If
> strLine = sr.ReadLine
> End While
> sr.Close()
>
> and with a subsequent count on the number of vbCr in the
> string-builder contents (sbFileContent) I was hoping to count the
> number of "visible" & non-blank lines (and thus characters) in the
> file.
>
> My first problem:
> If you type in WORD WITHOUT using any line break characters (vbCr,
> vbLf, vbCrLf etc), the typing naturally wraps at the edge of the page
> so that on visual inspection a document might have 1 paragraph
> consisting of 8 lines BUT in fact what you actually have is 1
> continuous string with no line breaks. I guess I'm wondering how can
> you count lines in a WORD file like its native line counter but
> without using WORD on the server!
> How does WORD do it anyway? Does it calculate the number of lines by
> dividing the total number of characters in the file by the width of
> the page in characters????
>
> My second problem:
> I have to edit the file to remove some sections. I need to edit the
> file and re-save it which, when the file is a MS WORD .doc file, is
> problematic considering I don't have WORD on the server. The file just
> gets corrupted and when I have to open it later I just get gibberish.
>
> So, I thought about using an RTF file saved from WORD as the uploaded
> document. Now, the benefits of RTF is that I can definitely do the
> search & replace function and resave the docuemnt WITHOUT causing any
> corruption of the document.
> However, I have much the same "line counting" problems as I had with
> WORD except that now I even have the RTF formatting markup do deal
> with which is in the actual content of the file. So, I guess I'm
> wondering how to do line counting of visible, non-blank lines in an
> RTF while ignoring the RTF markup. Again I'm gonna have the same
> problems with the counting of lines where word wrapping is what is
> responsible for breaking of a continuous paragraph into a number of
> lines.
>
> So, I need a solution that will allow me to count the number of
> visible lines in either a WORD or RTF file AND a suggestion of how to
> edit (Search/Replace & Save) that file, after the counting process!!!
>
> Would anyone have any suggestions, bright ideas, hacks, references,
> code, sleep they'd like to give me I'd be very grateful!
> Thanks for listening,
> J[/color]
