String Functions and Manipulation in VB6

String Functions and Manipulation in VB6

Asc, Chr, Mid, Join, LSet, StrConv, StrReverse, Filter, Replace

InStr (function)

Returns a Variant (Long) specifying the position of the first occurrence of one string within another.

Syntax

InStr([start, ]string1, string2[, compare])

Example

Dim SearchString, SearchChar, MyPos
SearchString ="XXpXXpXXPXXP"   ' String to search in.
SearchChar = "P"   ' Search for "P".

' A textual comparison starting at position 4. Returns 6.
MyPos = Instr(4, SearchString, SearchChar, 1)    

' A binary comparison starting at position 1. Returns 9.
MyPos = Instr(1, SearchString, SearchChar, 0)

' Comparison is binary by default (last argument is omitted).
MyPos = Instr(SearchString, SearchChar)   ' Returns 9.

MyPos = Instr(1, SearchString, "W")   ' Returns 0.

InStrRev (function)

Returns the position of an occurrence of one string within another, from the end of string.

Syntax

InstrRev(stringcheck, stringmatch[, start[, compare]])

StrComp (function)

Returns a Variant (Integer) indicating the result of a string comparison.

Syntax

StrComp(string1, string2[, compare])

Return Values

If                                  StrComp returns
string1 is less than string2        -1
string1 is equal to string2 	     0
string1 is greater than string2     1
string1 or string2 is Null          Null