how to get the values of the bookmark from rtf file?

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Hi,

i have a rtf file. in which have the following bookmarks.

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Patient Name   
Medical Record Number   
Date of Birth   
Sex

at the following data in rtf file.

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Patient Name    : FRANKEL, CHARLES
Medical Record Number   : 3285311
Date of Birth   : 12/28/1958
Sex : Male

in my project i want to get the values of these bookmarks from rtf file using c#.

that is ,

CSS

FRANKEL, CHARLES
3285311
12/28/1958
Male

how to get data which is in this bookmarks from rtf file?

Thanks.

Posted 7-Nov-13 0:28am

hasbina

Updated 7-Nov-13 0:50am

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Chris Ross 2 · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-07T02:51:00

I would do two things:
1. download a copy of the RTF specification and find out how bookmarks are stored
2. study the raw RTF text of a sample input file containing one or more bookmarks, confirm that they are encoded consistently with what is described in the spec ... and that you understand that encoding.

Now, you'll know what your code must search for in the RTF. How you write a parser (even, a simple scanner) is probably determined by the other goals of your program (do you need to extract other information from the file? Is that information correlated with the bookmarks? etc.)

An alternative to dealing with the raw RTF is to use MS Office automation and use the Word API to find and extract the bookmarks. Of course, this route requires that your run time environment has MS Word installed.