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I have a document that i'm reading from a flat text file and printing to an
HTML page. I am wanting to search the document that I am writing to the page
and replace say every instance of the with a text box. When the user submits
the document I need to perform validation on each text box to make sure data
was entered. Do you know of an easy way to do this?

Many thanks in advance!
Ryan
 
I have a document that i'm reading from a flat text file and printing
to an HTML page. I am wanting to search the document that I am
writing to the page and replace say every instance of the with a text
box. When the user submits the document I need to perform validation
on each text box to make sure data was entered. Do you know of an
easy way to do this?
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Regular Expressions?

Manual Parsing?

How is the data formatted?
 
The text will be a regular document. I will want to replace each instance of
the following code which will let me know where I need to enter a text box
("[textbox]"). This will be normal document such as a contract or letter. I
will need to scan the document and replace all instances of [textbox] which
is not hard but the hard part or the part I can't figure out is how to
replace it with a server side object and tie it to a validation routine.

Ryan
 
The text will be a regular document. I will want to replace each
instance of the following code which will let me know where I need to
enter a text box ("[textbox]"). This will be normal document such as
a contract or letter. I will need to scan the document and replace
all instances of [textbox] which is not hard but the hard part or the
part I can't figure out is how to replace it with a server side object
and tie it to a validation routine.
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Definately use regular expressions... they're fast and flexible.

Also consider this - you might want to do the replacement at runtime,
that'll give you the ability to edit the text templates before rendering.
Might be useful if these forms change a lot (or if they want to tweak
something in the form).
 
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