Help with ASP.net Strings

rich_g85 · 20 Mar 2008 at 14:14

Hi,
I have a listbox populated with items in the format 'Store Name (XXY)'

I want to set a string variable to the three characters between the brackets.

Is there any easy way of doing this in ASP.net?

topbanana · 20 Mar 2008 at 15:09

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.substring(VS.80).aspx

Stelly · 20 Mar 2008 at 15:19

C# or VB?

Stelly

rich_g85 · 20 Mar 2008 at 15:28

Stelly, it's VB.

saffyre · 20 Mar 2008 at 15:50

You should be able to select a substring using the charachter index in some way. Im a c# man though so cant tell you how to do it in VB.

in c# it would be somthing like string newString = oldstring.Substring(12,3) I guess.

topbanana · 21 Mar 2008 at 09:46

It's detailed in the link I posted.

SubString is a member of String, so it works the same in either VB or C#.

Gman · 21 Mar 2008 at 12:44

I take it the list items are dynamic ? if so when you'll need to get the posiiton of the "(" and ")" within the string in order the create the subsring correctly