Deleting a character from a textbox

[Gimpster]

How can I delete a single character from a text box? Say, I have 5 characters in a text box, and I want to delete just the last one, so that I'll have 4 characters in the text box after running the code. How would I do that? Please include some code. Thanks.

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Ryan
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ICQ# 47799046

[QWERTY]

If you want to delete last one (or any number of character at the end) you could use Left Function

'Text1="QWERTY"
Text1.text=Left(Text1.text,4)
'Text1="QWER"

To delete any number of characters from the begining Right Function

'text1="QWERTY"
Text1.Text=Right(text1.text,4)
'text1="ERTY"

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Visual Basic Programmer
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PolComSoft
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[ChrisJackson]

Hi.

This code should do the trick.

If Len(Text1) > 0 Then
Text1.Text = Left(Text1.Text, (Len(Text1.Text) - 1))
Else
MsgBox "Nothing to delete!"
End If


[This message has been edited by ChrisJackson (edited 11-05-1999).]

[QWERTY]

You can also take a look on Mid Statement in VB help.

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[This message has been edited by QWERTY (edited 11-05-1999).]

[Gimpster]

Ok, thanks a lot.

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Ryan
[email protected]
ICQ# 47799046

[DiGiTaIErRoR]

that's all good if it's on the ends.
but if you just want one code for everything try this:
say we have abcde in a textbox and we want to replace c
<code>
Private Sub Command1_Click()
Replace$ = "c"
n = InStr(Text1.Text, Replace$)
Text2.Text = Left$(Text1.Text, n - 1) & text3.Text = Right$(Text1.Text, Len(Text1.Text) - n)
End Sub
</code>
This will only replace the first C if you want you could loop it until instr(text1, replace$) = 0 and use Ucase$ or lcase$ to make sure you get ALL C or c.