Find and not replace functionality seems odd

Aspose.Words Product Family
1

I want to look through a Word document and find all instances of a particular word. I don’t want to replace the word, I just want to know if it exists.

This page suggests Range.Replace “is useful for searching strings without replace”: https://docs.aspose.com/words/net/find-and-replace/

But this page says the return value is the “number of replacements made”: https://reference.aspose.com/words/net/aspose.words/range/replace/

I don’t want to replace anything, I just want to find search without replace. I can do that with the following code:

public class MergeCodeFinder : IReplacingCallback
{
    public ReplaceAction Replacing(ReplacingArgs args)
    {
        args.Replacement = args.Replacement;
        return ReplaceAction.Replace;
    }
}

Setting args.Replacement = args.Replacement just to get the count of “replacements” seems a bit silly. Am I missing something? Is there an easier way to find something in a document without replacing it?

2

Hello

Thanks for your request. If you need to find keywords in document’s content, of course you can use Range.Replace method. For example, see the following article:
https://docs.aspose.com/words/net/find-and-replace/
Hope this helps.
Best regards,

3

Hi Allen,
Thanks for your inquiry.
More specifically, you can use Range.Replace just to find text and not replace them by returning return ReplaceAction.Skip; instead.
This will skip any replacement at all.
Thanks,