Hello,

I WOULD like to know if anybody could tell me how to look for the following string in all, and I mean all the files in my computer. All that in Visual Basic.net of course.

String = 1591019361894212833234215551807

Thank You

AlmnCycle through each file and folder, opening them as a TEXT file. Scan through them looking for that string.


Odd question...Any hints on the code ??
The thing is I saved a document in many many places with different name on my computer, also the size is different because I made revisions afterwards. However all the files cointain this string: 1591019361894212833234215551807

Thank You

Al968Can't Google desktop search do that for you?well the point is that I would like a Visual Basic application that does that.

Al968get a list on all of the files in your computer us vb and then oppen eachfile in vb and have it look and see if a line contains what you are looking forDo you want to find a file or do you want to make a Visual Basic program? DECIDE which one is more important.

You can just use the ordinary Windows search to find certain text within a file.well actualy MAYBE your right I just want to do the Program

Al968I am just learning VB programming, so this is actually beyond my scope, but, I asked my instructor and she posted the following reply. I hope this puts you in the right direction.

Imports System.IO
Imports System

Public Class Form1
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

#Region " Windows Form Designer generated code "

Public Sub New()
MyBase.New()

'This call is required by the Windows Form Designer.
InitializeComponent()

'Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call

End Sub

'Form overrides dispose to clean up the component list.
Protected Overloads Overrides Sub Dispose(ByVal disposing As
Boolean)
If disposing Then
If Not (components Is Nothing) Then
components.Dispose()
End If
End If
MyBase.Dispose(disposing)
End Sub

'Required by the Windows Form Designer
Private components As System.ComponentModel.IContainer

'NOTE: The following procedure is required by the Windows Form
Designer
'It can be modified using the Windows Form Designer.
'Do not modify it using the code editor.
Friend WithEvents TextBox1 As System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
Friend WithEvents Button1 As System.Windows.Forms.Button
Friend WithEvents lbl As System.Windows.Forms.Label
Friend WithEvents Label1 As System.Windows.Forms.Label
Private Sub
InitializeComponent()
Me.lbl = New System.Windows.Forms.Label
Me.TextBox1 = New System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
Me.Button1 = New System.Windows.Forms.Button
Me.Label1 = New System.Windows.Forms.Label
Me.SuspendLayout()
'
'lbl
'
Me.lbl.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(96, 48)
Me.lbl.Name = "lbl"
Me.lbl.TabIndex = 0
Me.lbl.Text = "Search Word"
'
'TextBox1
'
Me.TextBox1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(224, 48)
Me.TextBox1.Name = "TextBox1"
Me.TextBox1.TabIndex = 1
Me.TextBox1.Text = ""
'
'Button1
'
Me.Button1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(176, 136)
Me.Button1.Name = "Button1"
Me.Button1.TabIndex = 2
Me.Button1.Text = "Search"
'
'Label1
'
Me.Label1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(144, 88)
Me.Label1.Name = "Label1"
Me.Label1.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(144, 23)
Me.Label1.TabIndex = 3
'
'Form1
'
Me.AutoScaleBaseSize = New System.Drawing.Size(5, 13)
Me.ClientSize = New System.Drawing.Size(416, 266)
Me.Controls.Add(Me.Label1)
Me.Controls.Add(Me.Button1)
Me.Controls.Add(Me.TextBox1)
Me.Controls.Add(Me.lbl)
Me.Name = "Form1"
Me.Text = "Form1"
Me.ResumeLayout(False)

End Sub

#End Region

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim fileName As String = TextBox1.Text


Dim RDir As New DirectoryInfo("C:\")


Dim dir As DirectoryInfo
Dim fi As FileInfo
''first we start with the subdirectories under the C drive
For Each dir In RDir.GetDirectories
''the () tell us its a multidimensional string
Dim strFile() As String = Directory.GetFiles("C:\" &
dir.Name)
'Now we search through all the files in that directory
For Each fileName In strFile

Label1.Text = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(fileName)

Next


Next


End Sub
End Class


Hope this helps,
Photowrench

Ok , I know how to look for for the string in the file but I don't know how to list all the files on my computer.

Any help appreciated

Al968At the simpliest you could just dump a list of file paths in a text file."At the simpliest you could just dump a list of file paths in a text file. "
Does that list everyfile in the computer ?
How do I do that ?

Thanks

Al968It's your program not mine! When you find a file that contains this string, the file path will presumably be contained within a variable. Just write this variable onto the end of a text document. I suggest you READ some tutorials on file management if you cannot do this.