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Software ==>	Visual Basic (46 exercises)
Topic ==>	Working with files (3 exercises)
Level ==>	Average difficulty
Subject ==>	Visual Basic training

Search line by line through a set of text files for a missing person

This exercise is provided to allow potential course delegates to choose the correct Wise Owl Microsoft training course, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any format without the prior written consent of Wise Owl.

Before you can do this exercise, you'll need to download and unzip this file .

Press CTRL + D to add the file called frmHuntKilroy.vb from the above folder into your project (or right click on the project and choose to add it as an existing item).

Change your project's properties to make this the default form for your project. When you run your project, you should see this:

To find where the given text is hidden in text files, click on this button.

You can now select the files which you want to search:

The form includes code to bring up a dialog box. You can then select the files in which you want to search (they're C# ones - apologies) for the hidden text Kilroy.

Included in the code-behind is the following excerpt

'loop over all files selected ...

Dim EachFile As String

For Each EachFile In dfoFile.FileNames

'**************************************************

'AT THIS POINT EachFile holds the name of each file

'**************************************************

Next EachFile

Remove the commented out code, and replace it with code to read in the files that a user has selected line by line, announcing every time that a line containing Kilroy is found. Here's what this announcement might look like::

Your version of this message box will include the name of the file, and perhaps even the line number!

When your system is working, close down your application and any files that you have open.

You can unzip this file to see the answers to this exercise, although please remember this is for your personal use only.

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Search line by line through a set of text files for a missing person

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