string question

[shane]

I have gone over allot of the samples and documentation on the internet on
strings. I am not seeing a good example of a function or sub to remove all
characters to right or left of a given character. The ones I see I don't
know how to implement.

I want to take the following

c:\temp\otherTe mp
c:\temp\2ndTemp

and just returns from what follow after the last"\"

otherTemp
2ndTemp

I see the String.TrimStar t Method...but i cant figure out how to implement
it.

thanks

[Kelly Ethridge]

Re: string question

Have you tried Path.GetFileNam e?


shane wrote:

I have gone over allot of the samples and documentation on the internet on
strings. I am not seeing a good example of a function or sub to remove all
characters to right or left of a given character. The ones I see I don't
know how to implement.
>
I want to take the following
>
c:\temp\otherTe mp
c:\temp\2ndTemp
>
and just returns from what follow after the last"\"
>
otherTemp
2ndTemp
>
I see the String.TrimStar t Method...but i cant figure out how to implement
it.
>
thanks
>
>

[Meelis Lilbok]

Re: string question


Hi

Dim sPath As String = "c:\temp\otherT emp"
Dim sResult=sPath.S ubstring(sPath. LastIndexOf("\" ) + 1)

Mex


"shane" <azcpu@hotmail. comwrote in message
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>I have gone over allot of the samples and documentation on the internet on
>strings. I am not seeing a good example of a function or sub to remove all
>characters to right or left of a given character. The ones I see I don't
>know how to implement.
>
I want to take the following
>
c:\temp\otherTe mp
c:\temp\2ndTemp
>
and just returns from what follow after the last"\"
>
otherTemp
2ndTemp
>
I see the String.TrimStar t Method...but i cant figure out how to implement
it.
>
thanks
>

[Phill W.]

Re: string question

shane wrote:

I want to take the following

c:\temp\otherTe mp
c:\temp\2ndTemp

and just returns from what follow after the last"\"

Since you're working with file system Paths, how about using the Path
class in System.IO?

Imports System.IO

? Path.GetFilenam e( "c:\temp\otherT emp" )

Or, if you're determined to do it the String way ...

Dim s as String = "c:\temp\otherT emp"
? s.SubString( s.LastIndexof( "\" ) + 1 )

.... but don't be surprised if you get odd results from this, from time
to time. The methods in Path are far more tolerant of dodgy-looking
paths.

HTH,
Phill W.

[Hal Rosser]

Re: string question


"shane" <azcpu@hotmail. comwrote in message
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>I have gone over allot of the samples and documentation on the internet on
>strings. I am not seeing a good example of a function or sub to remove all
>characters to right or left of a given character. The ones I see I don't
>know how to implement.
>
I want to take the following
>
c:\temp\otherTe mp
c:\temp\2ndTemp
>
and just returns from what follow after the last"\"
>
otherTemp
2ndTemp
>
I see the String.TrimStar t Method...but i cant figure out how to implement
it.
>
thanks
>

Since you asked for a String solution..
broken down into steps:
Dim s as String = "c:\temp\otherT emp"
Dim pos as Integer = s.lastIndexOf(" \") + 1
Dim strFileName as String = s.substring(pos )

You may combine a couple of steps
HTH

[shane]

Re: string question

thanks a million guys..That worked great, but I will look at your other
suggestions . :)
"Hal Rosser" <hmrosser@bells outh.netwrote in message
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"shane" <azcpu@hotmail. comwrote in message
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>>I have gone over allot of the samples and documentation on the internet on
>>strings. I am not seeing a good example of a function or sub to remove all
>>characters to right or left of a given character. The ones I see I don't
>>know how to implement.
>>
>I want to take the following
>>
>c:\temp\otherT emp
>c:\temp\2ndTem p
>>
>and just returns from what follow after the last"\"
>>
>otherTemp
>2ndTemp
>>
>I see the String.TrimStar t Method...but i cant figure out how to
>implement it.
>>
>thanks
>>

Since you asked for a String solution..
broken down into steps:
Dim s as String = "c:\temp\otherT emp"
Dim pos as Integer = s.lastIndexOf(" \") + 1
Dim strFileName as String = s.substring(pos )
>
You may combine a couple of steps
HTH
>
>