Question

This seems like quite a silly basic question but it seems something I have completely passed over in my knowledge.

Basically I have a string representing a phone number (0 being the area code): 0828889988

And would like to replace the first zero with a 27 (South African dialing code) as I am pretty sure it will always be so, my SMS api requires it in international format but I want the user to enter it in local format, so should be: 27828889988

Is there a line or two of code I can call to replace that first character with the two others?

As is – I can think around a workaround solution but as I am not sure of the direct syntax will be quite a few lines long.

Answer 1

Dim number as String = "0828889988"
number = "27" + number.SubString(1)

return number //returns "27828889988"