[RESOLVED] why MID$() was featureless in VB6?

[flyguille]

My original post, was a mistake.

but, anyway, I tested things that maybe aren't in the help, that is good to know.

mid$(s,2,2) = "bcabrffe" ' will only copy the first two characters. as expected.

mid$(s,2)= "abccdeeff" ' will copy everything and paste it starting from the pointed position. but if the original string length is not large enough, it will only copy what it fits within the original string size

mid$(s,2,5) = "2affbccccc" if not fits, it will be cut, overriding the explicit length to copy, it won't expand the original string size.

A starting offset that is not currently allocated, like S="123":Mid$(S,5,2) = "ab" ' will result in error 5, bad procedure call.


this is the faster way to paste thing where the size of the thing do not change.