>Hello...
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> I am trying to programmatically highlight a substring of the text that appears within a textbox. For example the first two characters in a string of five aren't highlighted but the next three are. Or four in a string of seven aren't but the last three are...?
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>Any suggestions..? Thanks In advance :^)
You can use the SelStart and SelLength properties of the textbox to control what gets highlighted.