TextRanges Interface

Contains a TextRange object for each of the tagged subexpressions from a search pattern. TextRanges is also used to find where a box selection intersects each line of text.

Namespace:  EnvDTE
Assembly:  EnvDTE (in EnvDTE.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
<GuidAttribute("B6422E9C-9EFD-4F87-BDDC-C7FD8F2FD303")> _
Public Interface TextRanges _
    Inherits IEnumerable

[GuidAttribute("B6422E9C-9EFD-4F87-BDDC-C7FD8F2FD303")]
public interface TextRanges : IEnumerable

[GuidAttribute(L"B6422E9C-9EFD-4F87-BDDC-C7FD8F2FD303")]
public interface class TextRanges : IEnumerable

[<GuidAttribute("B6422E9C-9EFD-4F87-BDDC-C7FD8F2FD303")>]
type TextRanges =  
    interface 
        interface IEnumerable 
    end

public interface TextRanges extends IEnumerable

The TextRanges type exposes the following members.

Properties

	Name	Description
	Count	Gets a value indicating the number of objects in the collection.
	DTE	Gets the top-level extensibility object.
	Parent	Gets the immediate parent object of a TextRanges collection.

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Methods

	Name	Description
	GetEnumerator	Gets an enumeration for items in a collection.
	Item	Returns a TextRange object in a TextRanges collection.

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Remarks

A TextRanges collection is returned from a search operation when the search pattern is a regular expression with tagged subexpressions. The TextRanges collection contains a TextRange object for each of the tagged subexpressions.

Also, TextRanges are used to get box selections from the TextSelection object if you need to determine where the box selection intersects each line.

Examples

Sub TextRangeExample(ByVal dte As EnvDTE.DTE)
    Dim objTxtSel As TextSelection
    Dim colRanges As TextRanges
    Dim objRange As TextRange
    Dim objEP As EditPoint

    objTxtSel = dte.ActiveDocument.Selection
    colRanges = objTxtSel.TextRanges
    For Each objRange In colRanges
        objRange.StartPoint.Insert("/*")
        objRange.EndPoint.Insert("*/")
    Next
End Sub

public void TextRangeExample(_DTE dte)
{
    TextSelection ts;
    TextRanges trs;

    ts = (TextSelection)dte.ActiveDocument.Selection;
    trs = ts.TextRanges;
    MessageBox.Show (trs.Count.ToString ());
    foreach (TextRange tr in trs)
    {
        tr.StartPoint.Insert ("/*");
        tr.EndPoint.Insert ("*/");
    }
}

See Also

Reference

EnvDTE Namespace