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salacy Posts: 6 From: Houston, TX USA Status: offline	Finding Text In A File - 4/2/2001 23:59:00 Here is my situation. I am linking to an external text file over which I have no control. I would like to have the file open in the browser and then automatically scroll down to a location in the file based on a word or string in the file. Sort of like an automated edit/search. Is this possible? Thanks in advance. Scott


Thomas Brunt Posts: 6118 Joined: 6/6/1998 From: St. Matthews SC USA Status: offline	RE: Finding Text In A File - 4/2/2001 16:54:00 It has to be a html file to do that. It's easy then. You just create a bookmark on the html page and then link to file.htm#bookmarkname. (in reply to salacy)

salacy

Posts: 6
From: Houston, TX USA
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RE: Finding Text In A File - 4/2/2001 17:39:00

quote:
Originally posted by Thomas Brunt:
It has to be a html file to do that. It's easy then.
You just create a bookmark on the html page and then link to file.htm#bookmarkname.

Yes, I know about bookmarks. This text file I am linking to is external to my web. I cannot edit the text. I am looking for some code that will search the text file once someone opens it from my hyperlink.

(in reply to salacy)


Spooky Posts: 26617 Joined: 11/11/1998 From: Middle Earth Status: offline	RE: Finding Text In A File - 4/2/2001 20:34:00 I dont think there is a reasonable way to do it with external files? Suggest the user presses CTRL "f" ? (in reply to salacy)

salacy

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From: Houston, TX USA
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RE: Finding Text In A File - 4/5/2001 20:38:00

quote:
Originally posted by Spooky:
I dont think there is a reasonable way to do it with external files?
Suggest the user presses CTRL "f" ?

The way I am currently handling is by instructing the user to "scroll down to article #....". Not an elegant solution. Surely there must be a programmatic way to search or extract text from an external source by keyword.

(in reply to salacy)


Spooky Posts: 26617 Joined: 11/11/1998 From: Middle Earth Status: offline	RE: Finding Text In A File - 4/5/2001 20:56:00 Not that Im aware of. (being external) Possibly some server based components can rip off and parse the text from a web page and reformat the results, but I havent used any myself.... (in reply to salacy)