Dash/Hyphen in textbox

[tan8312]

I want to isolate the dashes that are entered in the textbox in a string. I want it to say:

(pseudocode)
if 4th character is not a dash ("-") then
msgbox("You must enter a dash as the fourth character.")
however, it is not responding correctly, the message keeps appearing even if I typed in a dash.

Please help!
Thanks in advance.


tan8312
System Support Coordinator
BIT Student

 

[Borvik]

Use the IndexOf string function.

Example:

If TextBox1.Text.IndexOf("-") <> 3 Then
     '0 is the first character in the string
     MsgBox("you need a hyphen at character 4")
End If