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String Functions - Length of a string

Length of a string

To get the length of a string you use the Len function. The Len Function uses the following syntax:

Len(String)

The following code gets the text from Text1 and tells you how many characters are in it (its length)

' Declare variable
Dim lLength As Long
' Get the length of the text
lLength = Len(Text1.Text)
' Display a Message Box
Msgbox "Text1 has " & lLength & " characters in it"

James first started writing tutorials on Visual Basic in 1999 whilst starting this website (then known as VB Web). Since then, the site has grown rapidly, and James has written numerous tutorials, articles and reviews on VB, PHP, ASP and C#. In October 2003, James formed the company Developer Fusion Ltd, which owns this website, and also offers various development services. In his spare time, he's a 3rd year undergraduate studying Computer Science in the UK. He's also a Visual Basic MVP.

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  • Re: [69] String Functions

    Posted by KöllMorgan on 14 Jan 2007

    Here we go again:


    After hours of debugging, I found out the only instance the first word on the second line does not get picked up is when I physically tab or hit enter and enter or type ad...

  • Re: [69] String Functions

    Posted by KöllMorgan on 14 Jan 2007

    Replying to my own post...Hiya!


    I found out the trick to grabbing the first word in the string using the above code:


    InStr(1," " & YourString & " ", " " & YourSearc...

  • Re: [69] String Functions

    Posted by KöllMorgan on 13 Jan 2007

    Hello!


     


    Wonderful, helpful site, by the way...


     


    I am working on a small program for a friend and noticed the below code.  Works flawlessly, accept t...

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    but.. i just wanted to answer it..

    just for some one who is searching on a specific topic ...and end up in finding only question...

  • Another way of removing excess spaces

    Posted by fatwalrus on 17 Feb 2005

    [b]I included a code extract here but you have to click on "read comments" to see it all.[/b]

    [i]Basically it just searches the text string for 2 spaces in row, and replaces it with one space, the...