Access 2003 FileSearch / TextOrProperty

[Dammato]

my access-application, I have a selection of "word"-documents. I want to look for a word/string within these documents and make a smaller selection with only those documents that contain that particular word/string

The corresponding code in a loop I use is:

dim SelectedMap, NameOfDocument, SearchString as String
Dim Exists as Boolean

SelectedMap = ...
NameOfDocument = ...
SearchString = ...

With Application.Fil eSearch
.NewSearch
.LookIn = SelectedMap
.SearchSubFolde rs = False
.FileName = NameOfDocument
.MatchTextExact ly = True
.TextOrProperty = SearchString
.FileType = msoFileTypeWord Documents
'.FileType = msoFileTypeAllF iles

Exists= .Execute(, , True) > 0
End With

This works fine with ordinay words such as "news" "probably" ..
This doesn't work with strings containing "." or ","
for eaxample "2.2.6", I get wrong results (with or without wildcards)

Does anyone know a solution ?
I'd be very grateful

dammato

[daniel aristidou]

dim SelectedMap, NameOfDocument, SearchString as String
Dim Exists as Boolean

SelectedMap = ...
NameOfDocument = ...
SearchString = ...

With Application.Fil eSearch
.NewSearch
.LookIn = SelectedMap
.SearchSubFolde rs = False
.FileName = NameOfDocument
.MatchTextExact ly = True
.TextOrProperty = SearchString
.FileType = msoFileTypeWord Documents
'.FileType = msoFileTypeAllF iles

Exists= .Execute(, , True) > 0
End With

This works fine with ordinay words such as "news" "probably" ..
This doesn't work with strings containing "." or ","
for eaxample "2.2.6", I get wrong results (with or without wildcards)

Does anyone know a solution ?
I'd be very grateful

dammato

Could you please post the code you are using to assign a string to
" SearchString "

[Dammato]

Could you please post the code you are using to assign a string to
" SearchString "

The content of SearchString is filled in by the user of the program. He fills the string in by a TextBox in a form

kind regards
Dammato