Compare Two Strings with charater

Member 8178029 asked:

Hi,

I have 2 textboxes where the user enters texts of same length. I need to do a char by char comparison. For this, i used Chars(i). Now, i have been trying to highlight the differences at the string index which is different. I am not able to figure a way out for that.

for example:

string1 = HELLO
string2 = WELLM

When the user hits Compare button, the code should highlight H and W, and also O and M maybe in the same respective textboxes or 2 different labels etc. Could you suggest ideas as to how i can do that? I am pretty much a newbie with VB coding! Have been trying to do this for a long time.

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