Thanks Cor,
In between I have posted that I found the Mid function. This will solve the
main problem. My code is probably not very efficient but I will see how I
get it to work first and then try to make it more efficient.
Thanks for all the links. I will read up and hopefully come up with some
reasonable solutions.
Claus
"Cor Ligthert" <notmyfirstname@planet.nl> wrote in message
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> Claus,
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> It is better to make from every problem one message.
>
> What is your problem?
> Writting a file
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> Using the string members?
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> Be aware that these use the 0 indexer, while the one you have mentioned[/color]
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> 1 indexer
>
> When you want to do some handling than the String functions can be very
> effective however look what I wrote above about the indexer
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> See the String module in this page
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> Do you want to start a process
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> And for the processinformation Word arguments
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> I think that for that string itself you can better ask it in a ms-Word
> newsgroup.
>
> I hope this helps?
>
> Cor
>
> "cjobes" <cjobes@nova-tech.org>
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> >
> > I'm trying to get a handle on VB.Net and I'm running into some problems
> > with
> > string manipulation. Here is what I'm trying to do:
> >
> > I have a text file that I need to process line by line and write the
> > changes
> > back to the file. I need to pull 5 substrings in each line, based on
> > specific characters (; and space), manipulate them and put them back
> > together. This is needed to pull the data afterwards into a DS Table. I
> > found the info about InStr to determine the start and end position and I
> > also found the "insert" property, but I cannot find anything that would
> > allow me to pull the substring.
> >
> > I also would like to know if anybody has an idea on how to start MSWord
> > from
> > the Proc procedure with parameters that would automatically start a
> > specific
> > MailMerge.
> >
> > Any help/hint would be very much appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Claus
> >
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