Search a specific text inside a given file

[todo1979]

Hi guys. I need some help here.
I wonder if there is a program like a clipboard monitor witch once started will stay in the system task bar and wait for a text to be captured with Ctrl+c, and once the text is memorized to automatically start searching that particular text inside a file witch I previously configured when I started the program, and when the text is found to show it into a small window (some sort of a highlight thing), and with the possibility to search forward and backward in case there are other text matches in that file. The file types I am interested in are the .pdf, .html, or the .doc files,
Thanks! and sorry for my bad english...

[craiglimpo]

Hi guys. I need some help here.
I wonder if there is a program like a clipboard monitor witch once started will stay in the system task bar and wait for a text to be captured with Ctrl+c, and once the text is memorized to automatically start searching that particular text inside a file witch I previously configured when I started the program, and when the text is found to show it into a small window (some sort of a highlight thing), and with the possibility to search forward and backward in case there are other text matches in that file. The file types I am interested in are the .pdf, .html, or the .doc files,
Thanks! and sorry for my bad english...

You can use a simple way to do this. Read the entire file in a string and use indexof function to search the string.

read file in a string like this :

System.IO.TextReader readFile = new StreamReader("C:\\net-informations.txt");
line = readFile.ReadToEnd();

and use indexof function to search the string

full source :

csharp.net-informations.com/file/csharp-simple-textreader.htm

craig.