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Posted on 2009-05-05

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I have a line :

I went to town
For shopping
This is one line
which is debugged as "I went to townFor shopping"

I want to find in line 'For ' word..How do I achieve this

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Question by:RIAS

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by:Haris V

Haris V earned 400 total points

ID: 243029852009-05-05

please check this link,
1. http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/.NET/Visual_Basic.NET/Q_22557527.html

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by:openshac

ID: 243030302009-05-05

I am assuming that it is just a line break being used in the original string

        Dim myString As String
        myString = "I went to town\nFor shopping\nThis is one line"
 
        Dim start As Integer
        Dim firstLine As String
 
        start = InStr(myString, "\n")
        If (start > 0) Then
            firstLine = Mid(myString, start + 1)
        End If

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by:RIAS

ID: 243031412009-05-05

Hi,
How to find a word after a particular index?

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by:openshac

openshac earned 600 total points

ID: 243031942009-05-05

Sorry I though you were looking for the word after the line break, if you are looking for a specific word then try this:

        Dim myString As String
        myString = "I went to town\nFor shopping\nThis is one line"
 
        Dim start As Integer
        Dim firstLine As String
        Dim myWord As String
 
        myWord = "For"
        start = InStr(myString, myWord)
        If (start > 0) Then
            firstLine = Mid(myString, start + 1)
        End If

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