Hi

There is a command in VB called Replace, I assume you are reading your text
file in via something like FSO line by line, once you have a line read in
then check it using the replace method, if the word you looking for isn't
there nothing will change.

HTH
Duncan

>-----Original Message-----
>From: prabodh sawant [mailto:sawantprabodh@i...]
>Sent: 20 July 2002 07:57
>To: professional vb
>Subject: [pro_vb] search and replace word in a file
>
>
>Hi all,
>i want to search for a particular word in the particular file. and if that
>word found raplace it with another.
>pls help me
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