Thanks Homer, Its good but is there any way without the regular expression as I have to search from a file and there are a lot of same keywords like alpha2. with this regular expression It will be difficult to find specific instance and its immediate before characters. Actually I have to track the keywords which are not coming in comments section. Not coming in /* */ and not started with //. comment may be of many lines. Can you please suggest the solution. Thanks in advance. Rohit

My question is: I want to know the index of /* and */ coming immediate before alpha2 Example: hello world /* this is */ right way to get the index of /* track to */ alpha2 dummy text alpha dummy /* test */textalpha dummy text Thanks in advance

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Hi viney There are many ways to do this. one of good is replied by "Apurva Kaushal". There is another way with help of database. (sql server 2000) make a procedure and you will have to make some parameters which can count the total no. of records. in datalist/repeater. and also you have to define the parameter which can help you divide the records(for how many records you want to display). i will send you code ASAP. Thanks and regards: Rohit K rohit