help to capture a value in line

Hello, how can i capture the value of left in the line below using string function:

left position is left:215px

i must capture the value 215.

Thanks...

Just get the index of the colon and the index of px, and get whats inbetween.

Code:

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Dim colonIndex as Integer
Dim capLength as Integer
Dim capturedString as String
Dim dataString as String = "left position is left:215px"
colonIndex = dataString.IndexOf(":")
'Gets the length of the string inbetween the colon and px
capLength = dataString.IndexOf("px") - colonIndex
capturedString = dataString.Substring(colonIndex + 1, capLength)

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Something along those lines

Unless the format of your string is always the same (i.e the number always comes after the 1st ":" and it always has 3 digits...), in which case you can use string manipulation as shown by Cellus, you'd better have a look at regular expressions.