Question

I know I can split a string into multiple substrings by giving a delimiter. I know I can also choose a substring based on character position like this:

sAddressOverflow = Right(sAddressLine1,5)

What I would like to do though is split an input string like this:

“123 South Main Street Apt. 24B”

But I only want to end up with two substrings which are split based on the first space to the left of the 25th character. So my desired output using the above input would be:

Substring1 = “123 South Main Street”
Substring2 = “Apt. 24B”

Is this possible?

Answer 1

Regular expressions have the advantage that you can configure your pattern independently from the location where you use it and that they are highly adaptable, so I prefer to do string manipulation with regular expressions. Unfortunately the pattern of Ansgar Wiechers does not exactly match your requirement. Here is one that does:

myString = "1234 6789A 234567 9B12 4567 890"
Set re = new RegExp
re.Pattern = "^(.{1,25}) (.*)$"
Set matches = re.Execute(myString)

wscript.echo "leftpart: " & matches(0).submatches(0)
wscript.echo "rightpart: " & matches(0).submatches(1)