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(I'm fairly new to VB, so if someone could help me out with actual code, i'd really appriciate it!)

How can I have VB isolate X amount of characters from one parsed string to another? For example, if VB was given:

bob jim stevens
bob bobo stevens

How could VB save the jim and bobo?

Also, how could VB find the location of the bob?

thanks

Code:

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Private Sub Command1_Click()
'here is an example
'of finding and getting
'strings, using Mid
'and InStr

    Dim lngPos As Long
    Dim TheString As String
    TheString = "bob is cool"
    lngPos = InStr(1, TheString, "bob")
    TheString = Mid(TheString, lngPos, 3)
    MsgBox TheString
End Sub

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