Question

 private void test()
 {
   int index = 0;
   int length = 0;

   while (true)
   {
     index = f.IndexOf("Text", index + 1);
     if (index == -1)
     {
       break;
     }
     int t = f.IndexOf("<", index);
     int e = f.IndexOf("/", t);
     string g = f.Substring(index , f.Length - t);

   }
 }

The text file im trying to get the string out from is content:

daniel<Text>THISISOUTisthere</Text>
<Text>hellobye</Text>
<Text>danielTHISishereandnotthere</Text>
danie <Text> is THIS here and not THERE</Text>

In the end i want that g will contain each time the text between the tags Text and the tag Text in the end i cant write here the symbole lower then and upper then but i want to get only the text between this two tags according to to my code. using:

<Text> and </Text> tags

Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

Assuming that you really want to do it this way and not use XmlTextReader, which is fine – sometimes it’s fun to roll your own solution, you might try something like this. I didn’t test it but it’s probably close, if I understand what you want to do:

string startTag = "<Text>";
string endTag = "</Text>";
int startTagWidth = startTag.Length;
int endTagWidth = endTag.Length;
index = 0;
while (true)
{
   index = f.IndexOf(startTag, index);
   if (index == -1) 
   {
      break; 
   }
   // else more to do - index now is positioned at first character of startTag
   int start = index + startTagWidth;
   index = f.IndexOf(endTag, start+1);
   if (index == -1)
   {
      break; 
   }
   // found the endTag
   string g = f.SubString(start, index - start)
}