Need help with strings in vba vb access

[techwayservices]

First off I just wanted to say thanks to all the people that helped so far. I have been developing in vba for the past 3 weeks and have a pretty firm understanding of it. Well anyways heres my problem.

Im saving a date string in this format ("11/14/05") as part of the title of a excel spreadsheet I am generating from access.

The problem:You cant save a filename under this format obviously. So I want to change:

11/14/05 to 11_14_05

So basically I need the char position the concatinate & "_" where the "/" would have been. What is the correct syntax to do this in vba/visual basic access?

[DKenny]

Use the replace function.
Here's an example.

Private Function NewDate(OldDate As String) As String
    NewDate = Replace(OldDate, "/", "_")
End Function

[techwayservices]

I like it! Thank you. Is there a way to physically change strings for future reference?

_Stephen

[DKenny]

Change them into what?

[techwayservices]

Oh I meant is there a way to pick out the certain characters you want to display.

_Stephen

[techwayservices]

BTW I used that replace and it worked wonders. Now I just need to find out how to populate the excel spreadsheet off of a subform.

[RobDog888]

To make the string variable retain the change...

MyDate = Replace(MyDate, "/", "_")