Super easy, just forgot.. help..

[cbvbguy]

say you've got a string: "hi bob, whats up?" and want to remove "bob, whats up?" and get stuck with "hi ". How?!
thanks!

[gwdash]

if it's the first three chars then

Dim str As String
Dim newstr as String
str = "Hi , Bob whats up"
newstr = Left(str,3)

Otherwise use the instr function to find char possition!

[da_silvy]

also this, for instr function

Dim myStr As String
myStr = "hi bob, whats up?"
MsgBox Left(myStr, InStr(1, myStr, "b", vbTextCompare) - 2)

Or try this...

Option Explicit

Private Sub Form_Load()
    Debug.Print DoIt("Hi, Bob what's up?")
End Sub

Private Function DoIt(S As String) as string
    DoIt = Replace(S, ", bob what's up?", "", , , vbTextCompare)
End Function

Hope you like it

[da_silvy]

but your code doesn't help with the parsing, you are just replacing it with what you want.

replacing with nothing is the same as stripping some chars off, isn't it?

For the simple purpose of retrieving the text, I think running it through a function will slow it down a little.

Nitro-> Why would you say so? Unless he's processing many of these strings, it's much more Legitmet to use the Left function.