Count textboxes caption (RESOLVED)

[lpeek]

how would i get how many characters (including spaces and other special characters) are in a textbox? what i want to do is, when the user types something its gets how many characters are added and take the total number away from 40 (becuase the maxlength is 40 and im making a counter for how many characters are left)

[McGenius]

Use Len function: MyCount = Len(Text1.Text)

[lpeek]

Originally posted by McGenius
Use Len function: MyCount = Len(Text1.Text)

how would i use that? it keeps saying "expected ("
is this right:

Private Sub txtbugname_Change()
    Use Len function: lblbnc.Caption = Len(txtbugname.Text)
End Sub

[Armor-Of-God]

Use len function: is not part of the code.

lblbnc.Caption = Len(txtbugname.Text)

[McGenius]

Originally posted by lpeek
how would i use that? it keeps saying "expected ("
is this right...

All I can tell you is that you need to learn to differ between ordinary text and and actual code snippet.

[lpeek]

oops, i c now (did notice the ":" thought it was all one =P), thanks