Check the first 2 characters of string

[axapta]

Hi Group,
How can I check that the first 2 characters of a string are the percent (%)
sign?
string name = strSurname

Regards

[Steve]

On Jul 30, 12:22 pm, "axapta" <[e-mail]:

Hi Group,
How can I check that the first 2 characters of a string are the percent (%)
sign?
string name = strSurname

Regards

strSurname.StartsWith("%")

[Steve]

On Jul 30, 12:22 pm, "axapta" <[e-mail]:

Hi Group,
How can I check that the first 2 characters of a string are the percent (%)
sign?
string name = strSurname

Regards

strSurname.StartsWith("%%")

[kimiraikkonen]

On Jul 30, 8:22 pm, "axapta" <[e-mail]:

Hi Group,
How can I check that the first 2 characters of a string are the percent (%)
sign?
string name = strSurname

Regards

You can get first two chars of a string with substring method like
below:

Dim foo As String = "foo"
'outputs "fo"
foo = foo.Substring(0, 2)

However, i'm not sure why you're looking for first 2 chars of the
string for determining if describes a percentage.

For example, you can use StartsWith("%") function depending on your
implementation of your application.

Thanks,

Onur

[Patrice]

Please always check the documentation before posting. For example try :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...tartswith.aspx.
Intellisense should have also shown what you could do with a string
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...b(vs.71).aspx)...

As you seems to be a beginner you may want also to read the language
specification once (not sure which one you are suing as you post what seems
an erroneous c# line in a vb group).

Finally in case you would have some sort of error ( do you miss the final ;
character in your code ?) post about the error you got rather than asking
such a general and basic question...

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Patrice

"axapta" <ja********@gmail.coma écrit dans le message de groupe de
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Hi Group,
How can I check that the first 2 characters of a string are the percent
(%) sign?
string name = strSurname

Regards

[Kevinp]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:22:09 +0100, "axapta" <ja********@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Hi Group,
How can I check that the first 2 characters of a string are the percent (%)
sign?
string name = strSurname

Regards

If Mid(mystring, 1, 2) = "%%" Then
'Do whatever
End If

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Kevinp" <kmahoney@nospam_fireacademy.orgschrieb:

>>How can I check that the first 2 characters of a string are the percent
(%)
sign?
string name = strSurname

Regards

If Mid(mystring, 1, 2) = "%%" Then
'Do whatever
End If

VB6-style: 'If Left(MyString, 2) = "%%" Then...'. You could also use the
'Like' string comparison operator with an appropriate pattern. However, I
doubt that these solutions are better than 'String.StartsWith'.

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