Description

An instance of the TextCharCollection class contains all characters in a Text Control document or part of the document represented through objects of the type TextChar. An instance of this class can be obtained with the TextControl.TextChars, HeaderFooter.TextChars or TextFrame.TextChars property. The TextCharCollection class implements the IEnumerable and the ICollection interfaces.

Syntax

public class TextCharCollection : ICollection, IEnumerable

Public Class TextCharCollection
    Implements ICollection, IEnumerable

Examples

The following example works with text chars in the current document.

TextCharCollection textCharCollection = textControl.TextChars;
textControl.Text = "Quarterly results\nRevenue increased by 12%.";

Dim textCharCollection As TextCharCollection = textControl.TextChars
textControl.Text = "Quarterly results" & vbCrLf & "Revenue increased by 12%."

Members

Properties

Property	Description
Count	Gets the number of elements contained in the collection.
Item	Gets the character from the collection. In C# this property is the indexer for the TextCharCollection class.

Methods

Method	Description
Add	Adds a character to the document.
CopyTo	Copies the elements of the collection to an array, starting at a particular index.
GetEnumerator	Returns an enumerator that can be used to iterate through the collection.
GetItem	Gets a particular character from the collection specified through a certain geometrical position.
Remove	Removes a character from a Text Control document. The method can also be used to remove control characters. Single control characters which are important for other formatting attributes, i.e. a table cell end character, cannot be removed through this method.