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Jun 20th, 2003, 04:46 PM
Azkar

what would be the syntax...

To search a textbox for a string and then find whatever is to the right of that string?

You can use the IndexOf method to find a string inside another string or at least where the inner string starts at. The SubString method will get the string after that point.
VB Code:
Dim inner As String = "the"
        Dim whole As String = "back in the valley..."
        MsgBox(whole.Substring(whole.IndexOf(inner)))
        'returns 'the valley...'

Jun 20th, 2003, 05:46 PM
Azkar

Sweet.... now with that, am i able to set it so it only finds so many chars after the keyword?

Yeah, check out the help in the SubString method. You can pass a 2nd parameter in which is the length from the start to return.
VB Code:
Dim inner As String = "the"
        Dim whole As String = "back in the valley..."
        MsgBox(whole.Substring(whole.IndexOf(inner), 5))
        'returns 'the v'

Jun 20th, 2003, 06:15 PM
Azkar

Thank you SO much for your help so far :)
Jun 20th, 2003, 07:48 PM
Azkar

I think this should be the last one

I have this string:

<html><head><title>VN Boards - *users* Profile</title>

I want to get just the username, which can be up to 20 chars, how can i get from the beginning to the end?

What you want to do is get the text between the - and the space after the name. Soo....

VB Code:

Dim sText As String
Dim sUser As String
Dim iStart As Integer
Dim iEnd As Integer
sText = "<html><head><title>VN Boards - *users* Profile</title>"
iStart = sText.IndexOf("-") + 1 ' add one for the space
iEnd = sText.LastIndexOf(" ") ' last space will be between user and profile
sUser = sText.Substr(iStart, iEnd - iStart).Trim()

untested, should work.

Jun 20th, 2003, 10:34 PM
Azkar

Cool sun, it works... Can i use the same method to get this?

Code:

Posts Total:  </td> <td width=85% class="BoardRowB"> 6,499

keep in mind, the number is always changing

Ive tried numerous things, but cant seem to get it
Jun 21st, 2003, 01:10 PM
PT Exorcist

it should be dead easy as long as u know what appears after that number, so you can look for the <td width=85% class="BoardRowB"> and then for the thing that is after it , subtract to get the lenght of the number and then use the .substring() method
Jun 21st, 2003, 08:45 PM
Azkar

heh... actually thats a bit tough....

everything uses

<td width=85% class="BoardRowB"> in it
Jun 21st, 2003, 08:47 PM
PT Exorcist

be smart, look for references, like the 5th's <td width=85% class="BoardRowB"> or something like that
Jun 21st, 2003, 09:57 PM
Azkar

heh... i got it, i looked from posts total, and then looked so many spaces in until the number started and ended at the space after the number

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