Reading TextBox info line by line

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I can import a .txt document into a TextBox

Each line in the TextBox contains a URL, for example,http://www.whateverdomain.com

I would like to convert each URL to the following format:
<a href="http://www.whateverdomain.com">http://www.whateverdomain.com</a>

Obviously I'm a dumb noob. I know how to convert a single line of text but can't figure out how to treat line-by-line, multiple entries in a TextBox..

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
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Hi Gregory,
Textbox control has Lines() property which returns all the lines
located in textbox. So, you can convert all the lines (lines, which
represent URLs) using with another array(myurlarr) as follows:

' Assuming you have pure URLs line by line in TextBox1
' The core of the job
Dim myurlarr() As String
myurlarr = TextBox1.Lines
For x As Integer = 0 To myurlarr.Length - 1
myurlarr(x) = "<a href=" & """" & TextBox1.Lines(x) & _
"""" & ">" & TextBox1.Lines(x) & "</a>"
Next


' Optionally, you may want to see converted output
For x As Integer = 0 To myurlarr.Length - 1
MsgBox(myurlarr(x).ToString)
Next

I tested the code that i wrote and i hope it'll work for you,


Onur Güzel
 
For Each S As String In Split(TextBox1.Text, vbCrLf)
<process S>
Next

I can import a .txt document into a TextBox

Each line in the TextBox contains a URL, for example,
http://www.whateverdomain.com

I would like to convert each URL to the following format:
<a href="http://www.whateverdomain.com">http://www.whateverdomain.com</a>

Obviously I'm a dumb noob. I know how to convert a single line of text but
can't figure out how to treat line-by-line, multiple entries in a TextBox.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
 
Thanks for that. It works great. I guess I need to learn more about arrays before I get too ambitious!

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I can import a .txt document into a TextBox

Each line in the TextBox contains a URL, for example, http://www.whateverdomain.com

I would like to convert each URL to the following format:
<a href="http://www.whateverdomain.com">http://www.whateverdomain.com</a>

Obviously I'm a dumb noob. I know how to convert a single line of text but can't figure out how to treat line-by-line, multiple entries in a TextBox.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
 
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