VB6 Find and Store.

[rspassey]

I have been thinking about doing a little VB6 program to help decipher Hijack This Logs so that they don't have to be analyzed online - especially if one is infected with malware that prevents webpages to be viewed.

Thinking deeper into the idea, I am pretty sure that BASIC will be able to handle the functions as I want them. I was planing on having a total log analyzer - you put in the log, press the start button and seconds later it would spit out information on each entry in the log, and if malware - telling how to best remove it.

To do so, I would need a way to find and store the individual keywords to then refer to against the database I would program into it. But, I am drawing a blank on the coding for finding specific characters and locations. Such coding which would be able to identify the { } and [ ] characters and store the information located between them.

Thanks In Advance,
Ryan

If this doesn't seem posible - or at least to someone of my limited programming skills, I know a simpler way would be to have a text box where you insert the BHO # or Start Up Keyword and press and "Info" Button - similar to those found online.

[alfie2]

this may help:

http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=417

try replacing "," with "[" and "{", then there you go...

[rspassey]

Originally Posted by alfie2 this may help: http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=417 try replacing "," with "[" and "{", then there you go...

Okay, thanks, I think I might be able to get that to work, if not I can go with the single search idea I was thinking about.

At the moment I am working on a Sudoku Puzzle Maker as a special project. The expected time to finish it is one month as it is a LOT of code and what seem like hundreds of If/Then statements. If anyone is an avid VB6 user, I highly recommend trying out this project (the Sudoku one) as it is one of the most enjoyable ones I have worked on and the overall coding isn't too difficult - it is the logic and problem solving parts which make it difficult.

[faulkner132]

Sounds like you are just doing simple string parsing. The functions "instr" and "mid" would be most helpful.

[rspassey]

I know it isn't Mid -

The Mid( ) function returns a specified number of characters from a string. The first integer argument specifies the starting position of the string to be extracted and the second integer argument specifies the number of characters.

Because I never know how long the string will be that I am storing.

Like I said - it might be easier to have a 04 text box where you put in the keyword and press a Find Button and then in a label below, it is updated with the information - that would also make coding it simpler while (in the end) the same goal is accomplished.

[faulkner132]

Mid would work if you did something like this

start = instr("[", data)
finish = instr("]", data, start + 1)
value = mid(data, start, finish - start)

I'm not 100% sure the parameter order is correct, but the logic should be the same for pulling values between a "[ ]".

[rspassey]

Okay, thanks, I will try that out later. I first have to code most of the data base such as

if value1 = "Option04" then label2.caption = "Option04 is associated with etc....