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Hey all,
I have a file name like Eng-Cat-01-01-01.txt. I need to do a loop that
starts stripping the letters from the front of this file name (which
I'll store as a variable) until it reaches the "Cat" part. So I would
have a variable "Cat-01-01-01.txt" that I can use to build up another
string.

Trouble is, I'm lost. Can't figure out how to do this in VB.net. Could
anyone point me in the right direction?

MANY thanks!

cm
Jul 18 '07 #1
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You should probably convert the strings to all upper or all lower case, but
this is the idea.

Dim fn As String = "Eng-Cat-01-01-01.txt"
Console.Out.Wri teLine(fn.Subst ring(fn.IndexOf ("Cat")))
"Benway" wrote:
Hey all,
I have a file name like Eng-Cat-01-01-01.txt. I need to do a loop that
starts stripping the letters from the front of this file name (which
I'll store as a variable) until it reaches the "Cat" part. So I would
have a variable "Cat-01-01-01.txt" that I can use to build up another
string.

Trouble is, I'm lost. Can't figure out how to do this in VB.net. Could
anyone point me in the right direction?

MANY thanks!

cm
Jul 18 '07 #2
Benway wrote:
I have a file name like Eng-Cat-01-01-01.txt. I need to do a loop
that starts stripping the letters from the front of this file name
(which I'll store as a variable) until it reaches the "Cat" part. So I
would have a variable "Cat-01-01-01.txt" that I can use to build up
another string.
Dim sFilename As String _
= "Eng-Cat-01-01-01.txt"
Dim iPos as Integer _
= sFilename.Index of( "Cat" )

If iPos -1 Then
? sFilename.SubSt ring( 0, iPos )
? sFilename.SubSt ring( iPos + "Cat".Lengt h() + 1 )

' or thereabouts ...

HTH,
Phill W.
Jul 18 '07 #3
Phill W. wrote:
Benway wrote:
>I have a file name like Eng-Cat-01-01-01.txt. I need to do a loop
that starts stripping the letters from the front of this file name
(which I'll store as a variable) until it reaches the "Cat" part. So
I would have a variable "Cat-01-01-01.txt" that I can use to build up
another string.

Dim sFilename As String _
= "Eng-Cat-01-01-01.txt"
Dim iPos as Integer _
= sFilename.Index of( "Cat" )

If iPos -1 Then
? sFilename.SubSt ring( 0, iPos )
? sFilename.SubSt ring( iPos + "Cat".Lengt h() + 1 )

' or thereabouts ...

HTH,
Phill W.
Thanks guys!

cm
Jul 18 '07 #4
Benway wrote:
Hey all,
I have a file name like Eng-Cat-01-01-01.txt. I need to do a loop
that starts stripping the letters from the front of this file name
(which I'll store as a variable) until it reaches the "Cat" part. So I
would have a variable "Cat-01-01-01.txt" that I can use to build up
another string.

Trouble is, I'm lost. Can't figure out how to do this in VB.net. Could
anyone point me in the right direction?

MANY thanks!

cm
Hey guys, one more thing you might be able to help with: I've got a
string of text in a label (about 10 or so letters). I need to search it
for "Mit" and replace it with "Cat". Any ideas?

Thanks again!

cm
Jul 19 '07 #5
Benway wrote:
I've got a string of text in a label (about 10 or so letters).
I need to search it for "Mit" and replace it with "Cat".
Any ideas?
So you want to "Replace" one value in a "String" with a different value?

There's a couple of keywords for you to look up ... ;-)

Do you have MSDN installed or do you have access to it on the Web?
Without it, you're going to be /really/ struggling to get to grips with
the Framework and all its classes and methods.

HTH,
Phill W.
Jul 19 '07 #6
Benway wrote:
Hey guys, one more thing you might be able to help with: I've got a
string of text in a label (about 10 or so letters). I need to search
it for "Mit" and replace it with "Cat". Any ideas?
SomeText=Replac e(SomeText, "Mit", "Cat")

Andrew
Jul 19 '07 #7
Phill W. wrote:
Benway wrote:
>I've got a string of text in a label (about 10 or so letters).
I need to search it for "Mit" and replace it with "Cat". Any ideas?

So you want to "Replace" one value in a "String" with a different value?

There's a couple of keywords for you to look up ... ;-)

Do you have MSDN installed or do you have access to it on the Web?
Without it, you're going to be /really/ struggling to get to grips with
the Framework and all its classes and methods.

HTH,
Phill W.
Yeah, thanks for pointing me to Google. I'll check there more
thoroughly in the future.

cm
Jul 20 '07 #8

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