I am looking for a way to do searches for a particular type of text; any embedded in square brackets: [test1]. A normal search & replace will not work: I need to evaluate the contents of each tagged area before determining what to replace it with.
How can I do a find based on the start bracket and end bracket (length of text inside tag will vary), evaluate the text, and then replace the bracketed area?
Thanks!
Hi<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Thanks for your inquiry. I think that you can use regular expressions. Also you can can use ReplaceEvaluetor. For example see the following code:
public void Test214()
{
//Open document
Document doc = new Document(@"Test214\in.doc");
//Create rexeg
Regex regexFindPlaceholder = new Regex(Regex.Escape("[") + @"(?\S+)" + Regex.Escape("]"));
//find and replace
doc.Range.Replace(regexFindPlaceholder, new ReplaceEvaluator(Replace214), false);
//Save output document
doc.Save(@"Test214\out.doc");
}
ReplaceAction Replace214(object sender, ReplaceEvaluatorArgs e)
{
switch (e.Match.Groups["name"].Value)
{
case "FirstName":
e.Replacement = "Alexey";
break;
case "LastName":
e.Replacement = "Noskov";
break;
}
return ReplaceAction.Replace;
}
The document that I used for testing contains [FirstName] and [LastName] placeholders.
I hope this could help you.
Best regards