Writing HTML

[Phil++]

Hey, I'm working on a project that writes some HTML code to a file and then opens the file up. Now, there is a lot of HTML code and I don't really want to write it all into my C# program, because I may need to change the HTML in the future. All I really need is to pass a few variables across.

Is there a way that I can search through the text file, find a specific word, ignore the equal sign and add my own variable? For example:

jQuery:

<script>
 var hello = "";
</script>

C#:

string hello = "Hello World";
  -Scans the document
  - Finds "var hello"
  - Ignores the =
  - Inserts hello.

Then when I open the webpage, it displays Hello?

Thanks for your help.

[darkagn]

You can use the String.Replace method for this purpose. What I would do is replace the string [var hello = ""] with your new string. Let's say you have read the file contents into a string called contents. Here is basically how you would do it:

public string SpecifyHello(string newGreeting, string contents)
{
  // \" is an escape to allow " to be inserted into a string
  string search = "var hello = \"\"";
  string replacement = "var hello = \"" + newGreeting + "\"";
  contents = contents.Replace(search, replacement);
  return contents;
}

Hope this helps :)

[Software guy]

#region using directives
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;
using System.Drawing.Drawing2D;
using System.Management;
using System.Resources;
using System.Media;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO;
#endregion 

namespace practice
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            Program.html_scanner();
        }


        static void html_scanner()
        {
            string var,filename,var_mod,text;
            int count=0;
            Console.WriteLine("\nEnter the file name:\n");
            filename = Console.ReadLine();
            Console.WriteLine("\nEnter the String for Scanning:\n");
            var = Console.ReadLine();
            Console.WriteLine("\nEnter the Modified String:\n");
            var_mod = Console.ReadLine();
            Console.WriteLine("Scanning File....");

            StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(filename);
            StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter("web2.html");

            do
            {
                text = reader.ReadLine();
                if (String.Compare(var,text)==0)
                {
                    writer.WriteLine(var_mod);
                    count++;
                }
                else
                {
                    writer.WriteLine(text);
                }

            }

            while (text != null);

            reader.Close();
            writer.Close();

            StreamReader reader2 = new StreamReader("web2.html");
            StreamWriter writer2 = new StreamWriter(filename);

            do
            {
                text = reader2.ReadLine();

                writer2.WriteLine(text);

                Console.WriteLine(text);
            }

            while (text != null);

            
            Console.WriteLine("\nNumber of strings modified are : {0}", count);
            reader2.Close();
            writer2.Close();
        }
    }
}

Wrote this code, it is close to what you are trying to do, but bit of modification will make it usable for your application.