Underscore in Visual Basic

hi
read this
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/22557527/InStr-Function-in-VB-NET.html

The underscore itself should not pose a problem as you have used it.  It is treated like a normal character in a string, so if "ox_shipaddress" is in body.innertext it will locate it.

I suspect the problem is that the string in body.innertext isn't what you think it is.  Perhaps the underscore is a different character?  Or there is a space around it?  

Can you paste up what is in body.innertext when the test fails?

~bp

You can also just loop through body.innertext to see what character the _ is by using this:

For i=1 To Len(body.innertext)
    Msgbox Asc(Mid(body.innertext, i, 1)
Next

Additionally, just to make sure its not case sensativity you should use this:
If InStr (1, body.innertext, "ox_shipaddress", vbTextCompare) Then

If this is VB6 or VBA, then the underscore is NOT your problem.  For example:MsgBox instr(1,"blah_blah_hee blah blah", "blah_hee")will return 6, as expected.More likely, either the string being sought is not truly there, or you are using a case-sensitive search (by default, InStr is case sensitive, unless you use vbTextCompare in an optional argument, or have a module declaration of Option Compare Text.Perhaps you should insert this line before the one above, and see what is written to the Immediate window:Debug.Print "|" & body.innertext & "|"

Slow fingers :)

Thanks for the help; here is the paragraph from the source document:

      </div>
    </form>
   <table>
    <tr>
     <td valign="top">
      <form  method="post" action="/gp/checkout/address/edit.html/ref=ox_shipaddress_edit_addr_1" id="edit-joqkltnomp">
        <input type="hidden" name="addressID" value="joqkltnomp" />
        <input type="hidden" name="changeAddressOrderID" value="" />
        <input type="hidden" name="useAddressWidget" value="1" />

and here is the snippet from the script:

If InStr(Body.innerText, "ox_shipaddress_edit_addr_1") Then

I actually copied and pasted the phrase.

Yes, and what was the value of the Body.innerText at the time?

When I hover over it it shows "Select a shipping address..." Is there a way to select the entire content?

right, sorry. Okay, that seems to be it. The phrase I am looking for is part of the html source code for an Internet Explorer page, while whats being outputted in the Immediate Screen is the output of the html, i.e. the IE page itself, sans the source code. I'm guess then that is the function of body.innertext. Is there then a function that would search the source code?

got it - body.innerHTML