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

David McAfee davidmcafee at gmail.com
Wed May 9 16:48:30 CDT 2007


On 5/9/07, Ron Allen <chizotz at mchsi.com> wrote:
>
> 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




Well according to http://www.carlosag.net/Tools/CodeTranslator/Default.aspx

they translate it as such for VB:

output = recordValue.Substring(startPosition, resultWidth).Trim

> 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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