Question

I was getting weird results when doing multiple splits on a string, so I decided to make a simple test to figure out what was going on

testString “1234567891011121314151617181920”

If I wanted to get whats between 10 to 20 in Javascript I would do this:

var results = testString.split("10")[1].split("20")[0]

Which would return 111213141516171819

However when I do this in VB I get 111

Split(testString,"10")(1).Split("20")(0)

It seems the 2nd split is only recognizing the first character no matter what I put.

So it’s stopping when it finds the next “2” in the string, even “2abc” would have the same outcome even though that string doesn’t even exist.

Answer 1

Try wrapping the second split so it’s fashioned like the first one, i.e.:

Split( Split(testString,"10")(1), "20" )(0)"