InStr function Position Glitch

[Dököll]

Don't you just love debugginh!

Sent a note to Steve, and my professor on this one. Smile, Killer, you hinted the code may not work as flawlessly as stated. Again, make no mistake about it, Steve's help has made a lot of sense, and yours, and still intend to engrave all names responsible (credits due and given). Going forward, I wanted to debug before screaming at the top of my lungs. And at the risk of making this one a mouth full, I will post several fables to explain the likelihood of drilling a hole in my notebook:-)

My friends, "I can't seem to find the meaning of funky"... if you like progressive house music, you might have heard above track. Anyhoot, my position is lost in the mix:

 
Dim strGetWords As Long
strGetWords = InStr(1, Text6(0).Text, " " & Text1.Text & " ", vbTextCompare)
If strGetWords = 0 Then
Text1.Text = "?"
Else
Text6(0).SetFocus
Text6(0).SelStart = strGetWords
Text6(0).SelLength = Len(Text1.Text)
End If
 
 

What's the problem now?

Well I'll tell you...Let's go to commercial first...

[Dököll]

Tonight VB 6.0 Forum, followed by "The Love Boat"...click, click, click, we're back:

 
Dim strGetWords As Long
strGetWords = InStr(1, Text6(0).Text, " " & Text1.Text & " ", vbTextCompare)
If strGetWords = 0 Then
Text1.Text = "I get nothing here"
Else
Text6(0).SetFocus
Text6(0).SelStart = strGetWords
Text6(0).SelLength = Len(Text1.Text)
End If
 
 

I get nada if the first position. Example:

"Wheels on the bus goes round and round"

When round is searched Text1.Text = "Round"

When Wheels searched Text1.Text = "I get nothing here"

Let's "analyze this" problem, shall we?

[Dököll]

I attempted to remove the " " $ and the & " " works just fine, and I do get Wheels, but I also get Wheels in "TheWheels", sounds familiar:

 
Dim strGetWords As Long
strGetWords = InStr(1, Text6(0).Text, Text1.Text, vbTextCompare)
If strGetWords = 0 Then
Text1.Text = "Wheels"  Got this from TheWheels
Else
Text6(0).SetFocus
Text6(0).SelStart = strGetWords
Text6(0).SelLength = Len(Text1.Text)
End If
 
'Text6(0).SelStart = strGetWords -1 did not do the trick
 
 
 

Your turn, Killer, or anyone who sees clearly what I intend to achieve. Just emailed my VB professor about this, he's been out the game, last he wrote; this should spring some interest. Now Killer, your code gives me the same result, Wheels not picked up but round does. Though it rids punctuation just fine, I must have done something silly to it, I am comparing the modified version to your and will post it in a moment...

In a bit, and thanks for your support, and patience.

Dököll

[Killer42]

You might want to try this slight modification to your code (I'll highlight the modified bit)...

Dim strGetWords As Long
strGetWords = InStr(1, " " & Text6(0).Text & " ", " " & Text1.Text & " ", vbTextCompare)
If strGetWords = 0 Then
  Text1.Text = "I get nothing here"
Else
  Text6(0).SetFocus
  Text6(0).SelStart = strGetWords
  Text6(0).SelLength = Len(Text1.Text)
End If

[Dököll]

Still attempting to diagnose Position Glitch in

 
strGetWords = InStr(1, Text6(0).Text, " " & Text1.Text & " ", vbTextCompare) ...
 
 

Here is what I found out in your beautifully written code, Killer. It is now working and deals with positioning as suspected previously. It was not picking up the first word in "Wheels on the bus..." because of:

 
Text6(0).SelStart = P - 1' I get an invalid use of property  error
 
 

I commented it out Text6(0).SelStart = P - 1 and it works great. Now encountered another glitch. I decided t add the remaining text on the next line as in the below. I am now unable to find "and" but "so" does pop up:

The Wheels on the bus goes round (first line in Text6(0).Text)
and round, if so where...(second line in Text6(0).Text)

Any idea how to remedy this. You have a pretty good idea I amj sure, I simply can't see it:

Please see next posting, your function to fetch puntuation is apparently not working. I wonder if I've done something wrong, Again. The Module added to plug it in is called/and dot-noted " KillerSays.WordFoundInText", I now get an "argument not optional" error. I can't figure out how I made it work.

I am happy with it thus far, I am debugging, see what gives :-)

[Dököll]

Much appreciated response...

Thanks for adding your two-sense here: I get the same deal as in the previous:

The Wheels on the bus goes round (first line in Text6(0).Text)
and round, if so where...(second line in Text6(0).Text)

"and" is not picked up, "The" is:

 
Dim strGetWords As Long
strGetWords = InStr(1, " " & Text6(0).Text & " ", " " & Text1.Text & " ", vbTextCompare)
If strGetWords = 0 Then
Text1.Text = "?" ' for 'and' I get ?
 
 

I will keep going...

[MMcCarthy]

Just a quick note. Please don't put messages in the title. Just put a question description. This is because the titles are searched by google and the messages just make them harder to find.

Thanks

ADMIN

[Dököll]

Got it, thanks, Mary...
Still learning how this works.

Make it a great week-end!

[Dököll]

I guess this also involves punctuation, correct!

[MMcCarthy]

Got it, thanks, Mary...
Still learning how this works.

Make it a great week-end!

You too Dokoll.

Thanks

[Killer42]

If a line break is causing poroblem, just treat it like punctuation, and convert it to spaces. If you're dealing with individual characters, then you could search for vbCR and vbLF and replace each of them with a space. If number of characters isn't so important, just scan for vbNewLine or vbCRLF and replace with a space.

(This is all just in the temporary copy of the text for searching, of course - not the "real" text.)

[Dököll]

You read my mind, I was coming here to let you know I found out why the first word on the next line (second line) did not get picked up:

If Text is added in a multiline TextBox, at the end of line, the TextBox forces text to next line (as in text)...If I physically tab or hit enter the word/text typed in afterwards does not get picked. I am about to do exactly what you said; well really I thought add Chr(13), Chr(10) to the list, I have read or heard vbNewLine and vbCrLF runs with both, so this is pretty cool.

Have a good morning, and a great day, I'm tired now...Thanks.