Problem With String Manipulation in VB6

[ThatVBGuy]

Hello All,

I could really use some help with this problem its driving me nuts. I have a small vb app, the goal of the app is to read an html doc into a variable then go through that variable and find and replace some tags. I have 3 functions. 1 to open the doc, the 2nd to find and replace the tags the 3rd to save the info. the code is pasted below :

Public Function ReadFileContents(FileFullPath As String) As _
   String
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
Dim iFileNumber As Integer
Dim sAns As String
If Dir(FileFullPath) = "" Then Exit Function
iFileNumber = FreeFile
Open FileFullPath For Input As #iFileNumber
sAns = Input(LOF(iFileNumber), #iFileNumber)
sAns = UCase(sAns)
ReadFileContents = sAns
'MsgBox sAns
ErrorHandler:
Close #iFileNumber
End Function

Public Function ReplaceText(ByVal txt As String, ByVal _
    from_str As String, ByVal to_str As String) As String
Dim result As String
Dim from_len As Integer
Dim pos As Integer
    from_len = Len(from_str)
    Do While Len(txt) > 0
        ' Find level 1.
        pos = InStr(txt, from_str)
        If pos = 0 Then
            ' No more occurrences.
            result = result & txt
            txt = ""
        Else
            ' Make the replacement.
            result = result & Left$(txt, pos - 1) & to_str
            txt = Mid$(txt, pos + from_len)
        End If
    Loop
    ReplaceText = result
End Function

Public Function SaveTextToFile(FileFullPath As String, _
 sText As String, Optional Overwrite As Boolean = True) As _
 Boolean
    
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
Dim iFileNumber As Integer
iFileNumber = FreeFile

If Overwrite Then
    Open FileFullPath For Output As #iFileNumber
Else
    Open FileFullPath For Append As #iFileNumber
End If

Print #iFileNumber, sText
SaveTextToFile = True

ErrorHandler:
Close #iFileNumber

End Function

Private Sub Form_Load()
'****************************************************************
'Define variables for strings
Dim sFileText As String
Dim sFrom1 As String, sTo1 As String
'****************************************************************

'Open the HTML file as text
sFileText = ReadFileContents("c:\toc\toc.htm")

'****************************************************************
'In this section you should setup the strings you are searching
'The document for. You should also setup the replacement string
'If the above named strings are found
'****************************************************************
sFrom1 = "<img src=" + Chr(34) + "space.gif" + Chr(34)
MsgBox sFrom1
sTo1 = "<div class=" + Chr(34) + "toc1" + Chr(34) + "><img src=" + Chr(34) + "space.gif" + Chr(34)
MsgBox sTo1

Call ReplaceText(sFileText, sFrom1, sTo1)
Call SaveTextToFile("c:\toc\toc.htm", sFileText, True)

End Sub

now here is the problem. When i hit the messagebox statements the variable is displayed in the way i want it to be. yet when i step through the logic before the call to ReplaceText when i check the value of sFrom1 and sTo1 there are extra quotes and things that arent allowing the string to be found and thus not replaced. I would like to know how to pass the variable into the function in the way its being displayed as opposed to this other way with all the additional quotes.

all help is appreciated im stuck here. I would like someone to help me but also explain why im getting this problem in the solution. I dont just want an answer i would like to learn as well.

thanks in advance,
john

[ThatVBGuy]

any ideas?

[PEB]

Hi man,

In Access Basic there is a function replace(Your string, searched, replace with), can you see about the same function in VB6?

If there is this kind of function try with it and say if there is a pb!

In fact it's also interesting the way that you obtain your html string !

[ThatVBGuy]

Hey thanks for the input. I tried using the vb search and replace function the problem im running into is this. In my code im using sFrom1 and sTo1 as the variables for the string to find and the string to replace it with. When i check the variable values with a msgbox on the sFrom1 variable it looks like the string im looking for HOWEVER when i pass that value into my function or the standard vb replace function it passes it in with a slew of extra quotation marks and i have no idea why. If i could get it to pass the value in i see when i display that variable in a msgbox i would be fine. Any ideas?

[psnanu]

Hi,
Just change
call ReplaceText(sFi leText, sFrom1, sTo1)
to
sFileText = ReplaceText(sFi leText, UCase(sFrom1), sTo1)

This should work for you.

[Killer42]

Just change ...

Thanks for that. It might be a bit late to help ThatVBGuy, though. According to their profile, he/she hasn't dropped in for about four months.