Reading a certain amount of characters from a string

[tehCoosh]

Im trying to have my application read only a certain amount of characters from a string. So lets say 'str' is 5 characters long, and I only want to read the last 2.

Thanks in advance

 

[PCLewis]

Take a look at Right$, Left$, Mid$ functions in your VB help.

 

[shannanl]

This would return the left two characters of the old string:

newstring = left(oldstring, 2)

This would return the right two characters of the old string:

newstring = right(oldstring, 2)

This would allow you to start somewhere other than the left or right. For instance, the one below will start at character #2 and read 3 characters to the right of it.

newstring = mid(oldstring, 2, 3)

Hope this helps.

Shannan

 

[tehCoosh]

Ah thanks for the help