[dba-VB] VB.Net - cut and trim

Ron Allen chizotz at mchsi.com
Wed May 9 16:23:53 CDT 2007


John,

In C#, you can do this in one line, no need to use the stringbuilder class:
	
output = recordValue.Substring(startPosition, resultWidth).Trim();

If the recordValue = "abcdefghijklmnop", startPosition = 5, and resultWidth = 
6, output would be "fghijk".

Ron




> I am looking at how to do in VB.Net what in VBA would be str =
> trim(mid(str,intStartPos, intLen))
>  
> I can do this (I think) in two steps using:
>  
>     private mstr as string
>     mstr = lstrRecord.SubString(intStartPos,intWidth)
>     mstr = mstr.Trim(mstr.ToCharArray)
>  
> Given what I know about VB.Net (not very darned much) is this the best way?
> I see where the string builder can do the substring part but it does not
> have a trim method.
>  
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
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