How to go backward direction in any string

[veer]

Hi
i want to move in a back direction in any string
just like substring function in which we can move from a particular location to another location in forward direction but i want to move backword direction

can you suggest me any way how ican do this

varinder

[r035198x]

Hi
i want to move in a back direction in any string
just like substring function in which we can move from a particular location to another location in forward direction but i want to move backword direction

can you suggest me any way how ican do this

varinder

Strings have an index just like an array which you can use to retrieve any character in the string.

[jamesd0142]

Take a look at the mid() function... I think this might solve your query

[stoogots2]

If you are trying to capture a part of the string from some position within the string backwards to the beginning, you could use the length property (or length-index), and a for/next loop in VB. This is only a logical solution if you do know the relative position within the string where you want to start but do not know how many characters you want.

VB

 for n = length-1 to 0 Step -1 
newstring=oldstring[n]+newstring
next n

//This captures everything from the end of the string (going backwards) until
// it encounters a space
C#

 for (int n=length-1;n>=0;n--) 
{
if(oldstring[n]=" ")
{
break;
}
newstring=oldstring[n]+newstring;
}

[Plater]

Hi
i want to move in a back direction in any string
just like substring function in which we can move from a particular location to another location in forward direction but i want to move backword direction

can you suggest me any way how ican do this

varinder

So if a string was
"A man and his dog went walking"

And you wanted to start on the h of "his" and go backwards 5 characters. do you want returned string to be "and h" or "h dna"(reversed) .
One can be done easily with substring(), the other would be better with the for loop