FieldCollection

FieldCollection class

A collection of Field objects that represents the fields in the specified range.

To learn more, visit the Working with Fields documentation article.

public class FieldCollection : IEnumerable<Field>

Properties

Name	Description
Count { get; }	Returns the number of the fields in the collection.
Item { get; }	Returns a field at the specified index.

Methods

Name	Description
Clear()	Removes all fields of this collection from the document and from this collection itself.
GetEnumerator()	Returns an enumerator object.
Remove(Field)	Removes the specified field from this collection and from the document.
RemoveAt(int)	Removes a field at the specified index from this collection and from the document.

Remarks

An instance of this collection iterates fields which start fall within the specified range.

The FieldCollection collection does not own the fields it contains, rather, is just a selection of fields.

The FieldCollection collection is “live”, i.e. changes to the children of the node object that it was created from are immediately reflected in the fields returned by the FieldCollection properties and methods.

Examples

Shows how to remove fields from a field collection.

Document doc = new Document();
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

builder.InsertField(" DATE \\@ \"dddd, d MMMM yyyy\" ");
builder.InsertField(" TIME ");
builder.InsertField(" REVNUM ");
builder.InsertField(" AUTHOR  \"John Doe\" ");
builder.InsertField(" SUBJECT \"My Subject\" ");
builder.InsertField(" QUOTE \"Hello world!\" ");
doc.UpdateFields();

FieldCollection fields = doc.Range.Fields;

Assert.AreEqual(6, fields.Count);

// Below are four ways of removing fields from a field collection.
// 1 -  Get a field to remove itself:
fields[0].Remove();
Assert.AreEqual(5, fields.Count);

// 2 -  Get the collection to remove a field that we pass to its removal method:
Field lastField = fields[3];
fields.Remove(lastField);
Assert.AreEqual(4, fields.Count);

// 3 -  Remove a field from a collection at an index:
fields.RemoveAt(2);
Assert.AreEqual(3, fields.Count);

// 4 -  Remove all the fields from the collection at once:
fields.Clear();
Assert.AreEqual(0, fields.Count);

Shows how to work with a collection of fields.

public void FieldCollection()
{
    Document doc = new Document();
    DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

    builder.InsertField(" DATE \\@ \"dddd, d MMMM yyyy\" ");
    builder.InsertField(" TIME ");
    builder.InsertField(" REVNUM ");
    builder.InsertField(" AUTHOR  \"John Doe\" ");
    builder.InsertField(" SUBJECT \"My Subject\" ");
    builder.InsertField(" QUOTE \"Hello world!\" ");
    doc.UpdateFields();

    FieldCollection fields = doc.Range.Fields;

    Assert.AreEqual(6, fields.Count);

    // Iterate over the field collection, and print contents and type
    // of every field using a custom visitor implementation.
    FieldVisitor fieldVisitor = new FieldVisitor();

    using (IEnumerator<Field> fieldEnumerator = fields.GetEnumerator())
    {
        while (fieldEnumerator.MoveNext())
        {
            if (fieldEnumerator.Current != null)
            {
                fieldEnumerator.Current.Start.Accept(fieldVisitor);
                fieldEnumerator.Current.Separator?.Accept(fieldVisitor);
                fieldEnumerator.Current.End.Accept(fieldVisitor);
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine("There are no fields in the document.");
            }
        }
    }

    Console.WriteLine(fieldVisitor.GetText());
}

/// <summary>
/// Document visitor implementation that prints field info.
/// </summary>
public class FieldVisitor : DocumentVisitor
{
    public FieldVisitor()
    {
        mBuilder = new StringBuilder();
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Gets the plain text of the document that was accumulated by the visitor.
    /// </summary>
    public string GetText()
    {
        return mBuilder.ToString();
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Called when a FieldStart node is encountered in the document.
    /// </summary>
    public override VisitorAction VisitFieldStart(FieldStart fieldStart)
    {
        mBuilder.AppendLine("Found field: " + fieldStart.FieldType);
        mBuilder.AppendLine("\tField code: " + fieldStart.GetField().GetFieldCode());
        mBuilder.AppendLine("\tDisplayed as: " + fieldStart.GetField().Result);

        return VisitorAction.Continue;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Called when a FieldSeparator node is encountered in the document.
    /// </summary>
    public override VisitorAction VisitFieldSeparator(FieldSeparator fieldSeparator)
    {
        mBuilder.AppendLine("\tFound separator: " + fieldSeparator.GetText());

        return VisitorAction.Continue;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Called when a FieldEnd node is encountered in the document.
    /// </summary>
    public override VisitorAction VisitFieldEnd(FieldEnd fieldEnd)
    {
        mBuilder.AppendLine("End of field: " + fieldEnd.FieldType);

        return VisitorAction.Continue;
    }

    private readonly StringBuilder mBuilder;
}

FieldCollection