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How do i search all the lines in a richtextbox for a specific string in the line and then return the line number the string correspondents in.

[edit]using Visual c++ windows form CLR

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What is this? c++ dotnet?

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Visual c++ windows form clr

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Sorry don't know.

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A richtextbox has a member Lines which is an array of all the lines of text (so Lines[0] would be the first line, etc). So yourRichTextbox->Lines->Length gives you the total number of lines. So you can do something like

for (int i = 0;i<richTextBox1->Lines->Length;i++)
{     
   if(richTextBox1->Lines[i]->Contains("findme"))
	 MessageBox::Show("Found it at line "+(i+1).ToString());
}

Of course that will only find the first instance of it, so if you want something else you'll have to keep track of where it was found, etc.

Edited by jonsca because: added {} for clarity
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