Right and Left

[John]

Hi

Why can't I use Right and Left string functions in vb anymore?

Thanks

Regards

 

[SurturZ]

You can but in a Windows Form they get shadowed by the .Left and .Right
properties of the form. It's quite annoying.

You have a few options:
1) (my preferred) Use Mid() instead
2) Type Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left("abcdef",1) instead
3) Create a function VBLeft() which calls Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left

Right() is the one you'll miss.

 

[Armin Zingler]

You can but in a Windows Form they get shadowed by the .Left and
.Right properties of the form. It's quite annoying.

You have a few options:
1) (my preferred) Use Mid() instead
2) Type Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left("abcdef",1) instead
3) Create a function VBLeft() which calls Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left

TheString.SubString(0, ...) 'however, not 100% equal

Right() is the one you'll miss.

Or use Microsoft.VisualBasic[.Strings].Right



Armin

 

[Family Tree Mike]

I believe you could do this at the top of your class:

Imports MVB = Microsoft.VisualBasic

then in your code:

a = MVB.Left("abcdef",1) 'for example

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

You can but in a Windows Form they get shadowed by the .Left and .Right
properties of the form. It's quite annoying.

You have a few options:
1) (my preferred) Use Mid() instead
2) Type Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left("abcdef",1) instead
3) Create a function VBLeft() which calls Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left

I simply qualify the function call with the module containing it:
'Strings.Left'.

 

[CMoya]

I simply qualify the function call with the module containing it:
'Strings.Left'.

Wow... glad I stumbled over this post. Thank you Herfried. I've been doing
Microsoft....yada.Left() for years in WinForms modules and never really
realized the Strings.Left() option. Much more elegant! Thanks!