Parsing Strings

[Salchester]

I currently have some text in a multiline textbox, how can the the following code be adapted to parse characters 3 to 8 on line 1 of the textbox. Then characters 2 to 6 on line to of the text box, and store both extracted strings in two separate variables.

The following code extracts from line 1 then store the extracted string inside sMidText

Dim sText As String
Dim sMidText As String

sText = text1.text
sMidText = Mid$(sText, 3, 8)
Debug.Print sMidText

Many Thanks,

[teknomage1]

Well, let's look at the code. What do the second and third arguments to Mid$() do?

[Salchester]

Originally Posted by teknomage1

Well, let's look at the code. What do the second and third arguments to Mid$() do?

Sorry, do you mean the argument shown below in bold?

Dim sText As String
Dim sMidText As String

sText = text1.text
sMidText = Mid$(sText, 3, 8)
Debug.Print sMidText

[teknomage1]

Yep, those arguments. What is the function of each one?

Extrapolating, what would the consequences of changing them to different numbers be?

[Salchester]

Originally Posted by teknomage1

Yep, those arguments. What is the function of each one?

Extrapolating, what would the consequences of changing them to different numbers be?

The arguments basic tell VB what characters to extract.

Extract characters 3 to 8 within a string.

Many Thanks,

[teknomage1]

So what would happen if you changed those numbers to 2,6 ?

[redhead]

His problem is not extracting things with the use of the Mid$() function, it is locating the second line and extracting the next seequence from that...
If he was smart, he'd cyckle through the text looking for '\n' and when one is reached, call Mid$() with the matching substring to be extracted depending on what line number is reached..
Now he just have to figure out the function to call which will do just that...
I know in C I probably would have used strchr() in a combination with strtok(), but since I always thought VB would introduce bad coding practice, I know Jack sh** about VB, so for now this is the only advice I can give...

[Salchester]

Yes, but wouldn't that extract all information on that line, rather than just a few characters?

Many Thanks, much appreciated!!!

[DJMaze]

You've discussed this at following website as well (3 pages)
http://www.devhardware.com/forums/pr...gs-120294.html

Are you really learning?