how to get perticular line from notepad or any text document

hi

i want to know how to retrieve only the even numbered line from any text document it may be notepad or some other document.and i want to campare the retrieved line with specific string.please help me out to do this.

regards
vidhya

 

Use GetWindowText to get complete text and then parse the odd one out.

 

i dont want to read text from the title bar ,i want to read one line of text from text document.is it possible to do.

 

You provide the handle to the textbox and not the main window.