Set a character limit on a listbox VB.NET

[InsomniaCalls]

Hi there,

Is there a way of setting a maximum number of characters that a listbox can display per item?

I have some code which pulls text from html source code into a listbox but I'm unable to trim some of the characters after the important stuff (if I remove them it affects another part of the code).

The important text will never exceed 5 characters so if I could limit the characters in the listbox to 5 that would solve the problem.

An example of the value going into the listbox is 19386</td>.
I need only to show the numeric value.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Si

 

[~J~]

I know you said you can't 'trim' the characters because they're used elsewhere, but can't you trim the text but keep the value?

 

[Amleto]

cant you just use left(strValue,5) somehow?

 

[~J~]

cant you just use left(strValue,5) somehow?

Slightly OT, Left is now superceded with SubString.

 

[InsomniaCalls]

I can't check now as I'm not at work but something like this maybe?

Dim length As Integer = 5

StringValue = StringValue.Substring(0, length)

 

[Inquisitor]

Just use the Listbox.Format event.