Question

I am working on finishing up a mvc 3 vb.net app… I have to parse about 2000 entries in a database and get the string value to the right of a ” : ” delimiter from one of the columns… Everything to the left I am not worried about but I need the value that is to the right of the colon for that item.. I have more issues involving needing to select string characters to the right or left of a delimiter… But if someone can show me how to achieve the above I can figure out the rest from there… Thanks again…

a example of the string is Jackson Smokehouse Fish Food:John Jacob JinggleHimer Schmit
I would want to eliminate the first part of the string or just select the second part and put it in a variable for later processing…

Answer 1

You could use string.Split(‘:’) which will split your string into a string array. so you can just grab the string to the right. My VB is rusty:

Dim stringToRight as String
stringToRight = databaseString.Split("1"c)(1)

There are probably better ways, but this is straight forward.