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\otherTemp
c:\temp\2ndTemp

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

otherTemp
2ndTemp

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

thanks

[Kelly Ethridge]

Have you tried Path.GetFileName?
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\otherTemp
c:\temp\2ndTemp

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

otherTemp
2ndTemp

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

thanks

[Meelis Lilbok]

Hi

Dim sPath As String = "c:\temp\otherTemp"
Dim sResult=sPath.Substring(sPath.LastIndexOf("\") + 1)

Mex
"shane" <az***@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\otherTemp
c:\temp\2ndTemp

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

otherTemp
2ndTemp

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

thanks

[Phill W.]

shane wrote:

I want to take the following

c:\temp\otherTemp
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.GetFilename( "c:\temp\otherTemp" )

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

Dim s as String = "c:\temp\otherTemp"
? 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]

"shane" <az***@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\otherTemp
c:\temp\2ndTemp

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

otherTemp
2ndTemp

I see the String.TrimStart 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\otherTemp"
Dim pos as Integer = s.lastIndexOf("\") + 1
Dim strFileName as String = s.substring(pos )

You may combine a couple of steps
HTH

[shane]

thanks a million guys..That worked great, but I will look at your other
suggestions . :)
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"shane" <az***@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\otherTemp
c:\temp\2ndTemp

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

otherTemp
2ndTemp

I see the String.TrimStart 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\otherTemp"
Dim pos as Integer = s.lastIndexOf("\") + 1
Dim strFileName as String = s.substring(pos )

You may combine a couple of steps
HTH