Question

I have a string that has 2 sections broken up by a -. When I pass this value to my new page I just want the first section.

An example value would be: MS 25 – 25

I just want to show: MS 25

I am looking at IndexOf() and SubString() but I can’t find how to get the start of the string and drop the end.

Answer 1

This might help:
http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/net/nets7p5.html

Basically the substring method takes 2 parameters. Start position and length.

In your case, the start position is 0 and length is going to be the position found by the IndexOf method -1.

For example:

Dim s as String
Dim result as String

s = "MS 25 - 25"

result = s.SubString(0, s.IndexOf("-")-1)