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What exactly do you want to find? If a file has the string? The exact line number?<br />
For now, I think your code should open the file as a streamreader, do a readall, then an Instr
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What exactly do you want to find? If a file has the string? The exact line number?
For now, I think your code should open the file as a streamreader, do a readall, then an Instr

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But how would it work?<br />
You mean only for a single given string or also across multiple files?<br />
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If you want to go &quot;fancy&quot; by supporting multiple patterns and such, <a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.regularexpressions(v=vs.110).aspx" rel="ugc">Regular Expressions</a> is the only true way.
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But how would it work?
You mean only for a single given string or also across multiple files?

If you want to go "fancy" by supporting multiple patterns and such, Regular Expressions [https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.regularexpressions(v=vs.110).aspx] is the only true way.

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I need to implement findsre using ASP and/or AJAX. Can anyone help by pointing me in the right direction? Is there an equivalent?
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I need to implement findsre using ASP and/or AJAX. Can anyone help by pointing me in the right direction? Is there an equivalent?

ASP equivalent to Windows findstr

Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft’s first server-side engine for dynamic web pages. ASP’s support of the Component Object Model (COM) enables it to access and use compiled libraries such as DLLs. It has been superseded by ASP.NET, but will be supported by Internet Information Services (IIS) through at least 2022.

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) is a group of interrelated Web development techniques used on the client-side to create asynchronous Web applications. With AJAX, web applications can send data to and retrieve from a server asynchronously (in the background) without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page. HTML and CSS can be used in combination to mark up and style information. The Document Object Model (DOM) is accessed with JavaScript to dynamically display and allow interaction with the information presented.

AJAX

JavaScript is a dynamic, object-based language commonly used for client-side scripting in web browsers. Recently, server side JavaScript frameworks have also emerged. JavaScript runs on nearly every operating system and  in almost every mainstream web browser.