Find and Replace

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Here's some code I wrote to do a find and replace.

There's a textbox for find "tbxFind", and one for replace "tbxReplace".
When I execute the code, it finds all of the occurrences and replaces them all.

What I'd like to be able to do is find each occurrence one at a time, and replace it one at a time.
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VB

Private Sub btnOK_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnOK.Click
      tbxEditor.Text = Replace(tbxEditor.Text, tbxFind.Text, tbxReplace.Text)
      MsgBox(" ' " & tbxFind.Text & " ' " & " Has been replaced with:" & " ' " & tbxReplace.Text & " ' ")
   End Sub

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Posted 8-Dec-10 17:21pm

supposei

Updated 8-Dec-10 21:55pm

Dalek Dave

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Dalek Dave 9-Dec-10 3:55am

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Scubapro · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-08T21:01:00

Solution 1

You could use Remove and Insert, like so:

VB

Private Sub BtnOK_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles BtnOK.Click

        Dim iplace As String = tbxEditor.Text.IndexOf(tbxFind.Text)
        tbxEditor.Text = tbxEditor.Text.Remove(iplace, Len(tbxFind.Text)).Insert(iplace, tbxReplace.Text)

End Sub

This way, replacement is one by one on buttonclick.

Posted 8-Dec-10 21:01pm

Scubapro

Updated 8-Dec-10 22:05pm

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Dalek Dave 9-Dec-10 3:55am

Good Answer.

Rajesh Anuhya 9-Dec-10 4:01am

Good :) +5