replace a Text in winword within a range

[Cyrus IRA]

... [START] blaaa blaa blaa T h i s (this is an empty line) {END] ... another line -------------------------------------- I have been trying to remove empty lines appearing between [START] and {END] within a word document. Code seems to work if I did not have a textbox at top of my document. It seems that the textbox is also cleared once such operation takes place.

            wordapp = new Word.Application();
            wordapp.Visible = false;
            doc = wordapp.Documents.Open(wordPath);
            paragraphs = doc.Paragraphs;
            bool flag = false;

            foreach (Word.Paragraph paragraph in paragraphs)
            {
                string s = paragraph.Range.Text;
                string y = paragraph.Range.Text.Trim();

                if (paragraph.Range.Text == "\\r")
                {
                    flag = true;
                    paragraph.Range.Select();
                    wordapp.Selection.Delete();
                    continue;

                }
                else if (paragraph.Range.Text == "\\r")
                {
                    flag = false;
                    paragraph.Range.Select();
                    wordapp.Selection.Delete();
                    continue;
                }
                else if (paragraph.Range.Text.Trim() == string.Empty )
                {
                    if (flag)
                    {
                        paragraph.Range.Select();
                        wordapp.Selection.Delete();
                    }
                    continue;
                }

            }

            // Save the document and close document 
            doc.Save();
            // Quit the word application 
            wordapp.Quit();

is there any other way to achieve what I do using Range in Word or dealing with a textbox in Word?

Student of life

[BillWoodruff]

Hi Saeed, Could you clarify exactly what you mean by "textbox at top of my document" ? I note the variable 'y you define in your code is never used. It appears to me your code deletes the tags "<NE>" and "</NE>," as well as white-space between them: is that correct ? yours, Bill

string test = "\r";

string afterTest = test.Trim();

// true
MessageBox.Show(string.IsNullOrEmpty(afterTest).ToString());

// true
MessageBox.Show(string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(afterTest).ToString());

// true
MessageBox.Show((afterTest == string.Empty).ToString());

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