How to get all strings matching wildcards from word document

Question

I am trying to write an application to search a word document for all occurrences of , where some_text is any string of characters between < and >. As I find each match, I'd like to store/display/do something with each one.

Here's what I have so far:

Word._Application word = new Word.Application();
Word.Documents d = word.Documents;
Word._Document doc;

doc = d.Open(strFileName);
doc.Activate();

foreach (Word.Range myStoryRange in doc.StoryRanges)
{
    myStoryRange.Find.MatchWildcards = true;
    myStoryRange.Find.Text = "[<]*[>]";
    myStoryRange.Find.Execute();

    // Somehow get the result string that matched the wildcard
}

Answer 1

It turns out that the Range is re-defined for each found string. You can access each found text as:

rng.Text

And you can get the found text character positions within the greater Range:

rng.Start
rng.End

So I was able to do this by declaring a local Range containing only the found string within the Find loop. I was replacing each text with a DocProperty, but you could do anything you like with it:

    Word.Range rng = this.Content;
    rng.Find.MatchWildcards = true;
    rng.Find.Text = "[<]*[>]";

    while (rng.Find.Execute())
    {
        // create a local Range containing only a single found string
        object cstart = rng.Start;
        object cend   = rng.End;
        Word.Range localrng = this.Range(ref cstart, ref cend);

        // replace the text with a custom DocProperty
        Word.Field newfld = localrng.Fields.Add(localrng, Word.WdFieldType.wdFieldDocProperty, "MyDocProp", false);
        localrng.Fields.Update();
    }