Right and Left

[John]

Hi

Why can't I use Right and Left string functions in vb anymore?

Thanks

Regards

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RE: Right and Left

You can but in a Windows Form they get shadowed by the .Left and .Right
properties of the form. It's quite annoying.

You have a few options:
1) (my preferred) Use Mid() instead
2) Type Microsoft.Visua lBasic.Left("ab cdef",1) instead
3) Create a function VBLeft() which calls Microsoft.Visua lBasic.Left

Right() is the one you'll miss.

--
David Streeter
Synchrotech Software
Sydney Australia


"John" wrote:

Hi
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Why can't I use Right and Left string functions in vb anymore?
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Thanks
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Regards
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[Armin Zingler]

Re: Right and Left

"SurturZ" <surturz@newsgr oup.nospamschri eb

You can but in a Windows Form they get shadowed by the .Left and
.Right properties of the form. It's quite annoying.
>
You have a few options:
1) (my preferred) Use Mid() instead
2) Type Microsoft.Visua lBasic.Left("ab cdef",1) instead
3) Create a function VBLeft() which calls Microsoft.Visua lBasic.Left

TheString.SubSt ring(0, ...) 'however, not 100% equal

Right() is the one you'll miss.

Or use Microsoft.Visua lBasic[.Strings].Right



Armin

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RE: Right and Left

I believe you could do this at the top of your class:

Imports MVB = Microsoft.Visua lBasic

then in your code:

a = MVB.Left("abcde f",1) 'for example



"SurturZ" wrote:

You can but in a Windows Form they get shadowed by the .Left and .Right
properties of the form. It's quite annoying.
>
You have a few options:
1) (my preferred) Use Mid() instead
2) Type Microsoft.Visua lBasic.Left("ab cdef",1) instead
3) Create a function VBLeft() which calls Microsoft.Visua lBasic.Left
>
Right() is the one you'll miss.
>
--
David Streeter
Synchrotech Software
Sydney Australia
>
>
"John" wrote:
>

Hi

Why can't I use Right and Left string functions in vb anymore?

Thanks

Regards

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Re: Right and Left

"SurturZ" <surturz@newsgr oup.nospamschri eb:

You can but in a Windows Form they get shadowed by the .Left and .Right
properties of the form. It's quite annoying.
>
You have a few options:
1) (my preferred) Use Mid() instead
2) Type Microsoft.Visua lBasic.Left("ab cdef",1) instead
3) Create a function VBLeft() which calls Microsoft.Visua lBasic.Left

I simply qualify the function call with the module containing it:
'Strings.Left'.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

[CMoya]

Re: Right and Left

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"SurturZ" <surturz@newsgr oup.nospamschri eb:

>You can but in a Windows Form they get shadowed by the .Left and .Right
>properties of the form. It's quite annoying.
>>
>You have a few options:
>1) (my preferred) Use Mid() instead
>2) Type Microsoft.Visua lBasic.Left("ab cdef",1) instead
>3) Create a function VBLeft() which calls Microsoft.Visua lBasic.Left

>
I simply qualify the function call with the module containing it:
'Strings.Left'.
>

Wow... glad I stumbled over this post. Thank you Herfried. I've been doing
Microsoft....ya da.Left() for years in WinForms modules and never really
realized the Strings.Left() option. Much more elegant! Thanks!

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>