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SEP2007
"Give Everything Its Home"

It is possible for me to write in some code so when I write a procedure in VB Xpress, I tapplies different formatting rules ?

So if I write :

Private Sub proc1()
    for n = 1 to 5
       label.text = ...
       ....
       ....
End Sub

The editior will format this as.

*********************
* Private Sub proc1()   *
*    for n = 1 to 5          *
*       label.text = ...   *
*       ....                         *
*       ....                         *
* End Sub                      *
*********************

??????

sicRrh

Why would you want to do that?

Code formatted like that will not execute.

SEP2007
"Give Everything Its Home"

It would if the *'s were considered comments.

I should have put '*******

But can you put in comments at the start of the line and code later down the line that the complier will execute ?

Idealy, I'd like to do the box commenting automatically.

sicRrh

I don't think the Express versions will do that. You need something with a macro language to format code like that.

You could do something like that in Express with search and replace using regular expressions. Try this:

Hi-light the lines you wish to comment out.
Press CTRL-H
In Find What type ^
In Replace With type '*****
Click the find options
Click Use Regular Expressions
Click Replace All

You can do something similar for the end of line by searching for $ and replacing with \t\t*****

The \t indicates a tab.

You will then have to fix the tab spacing on the end of lines manually.

If this doesn't work for you, then you might try some editor with a good macro language like UltraEdit http://www.ultraedit.com/