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Im reading a PDF file, the result is assing to a string variable with //n//n between words (spaces), after this, the string variable is splited by spaces and assing to string array. so in this array I have each word in each position of the array.

I need to find a specific words or frases, for example:
String[10]:{
“23223”,
“date”;
“18/5/2020”,
“name: Juan Perez”,
“Identification 123456”,
“3453543”,
“test”,
“1”,
“Location”,
“Miami”,
…}

And i want to get name, identification, location. but the problem is that some pdf changes orders, so name wont be in same array(5) position, or maybe, name as a world is in array(5), and the name “Juan perez” is in array (6)

Any idea?

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Hello,

You’d probably better look directly with regex into the string from the pdf.

From your question, here is a approach. If the actual location is not in the same string but directly the next array’s element, please apply something like the following before (dirty but it’s up to you):

Dirty part

Assign (Int32)
idx = Array.IndexOf(myArray, "Location")

Assign
myArray(idx) = myArray(idx) & " " & myArray(idx + 1)

Variables

Assign (Dictionary<String, String>)
person = New Dictionary(Of String, String)

Assign (Array of String)
keys = {"name", "identification", "location"}

Assign (String)
pattern = "(?<key>\w+)[\:\s]*(?<value>.+)"

Processing

ForEach candidate in myArray (String)

  • Assign (Match)
    match = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(candidate, pattern)

  • If match.Success

    • Assign (String)
      key = match.Groups("key").ToString.ToLower

    • If keys.Contains(key)

      • Assign
        person(key) = match.Groups("value").ToString.Trim