String parsing issues

[JIMJ316]

Heya everyone

I am having a few problems trying to write a text parser.
Without going into detail, it needs to;

• Iterate through each character in the text,
• Count the number of tabs,
• Count the number of lines.

I first tried using an edit box, but my only method of iterating involved doing Right$(Left$(blah,i),1) which crashed the program when blah got too large (It can get REALLY large). So then I tried the rich edit object, which has a function to get the text between two chars, but it refused to treat the enter character as real, meaning I had no way to find which line I was on. So then I tried using a list object, going line by line then character by character, but I found that it deletes tab characters.

Is there any other objects that can do what I want? Or some method I haven't thought of? And does the rich edit object have a function to get what line a char is on?

Any help is greatly appreciated

[LB]

Why are you doing a crazy Right$(Left$()) thing? That is what Mid$() is for.

[JIMJ316]

I thought Mid$ could only get the very middle of a string and a specified number of letters surrounding it D:
I feel so stupid now T_T

[nivram]

Nah, don't feel stupid.

Marv

[LB]

I thought Mid$ could only get the very middle of a string and a specified number of letters surrounding it D:

I thought the same thing when I first saw it years ago!