[2008] display varying picture with substring

[The VBer]

I'm trying to display a picture inside of a picture box with a url using substring.
While testing it out i just made a text box that displays the source of the webbrowser page with the picture.
The problem is the image url is inside quotations.So, it confuses vb since i have it in like this...




Dim str As String

str = (TextBox1.Text.ToString)


PictureBox1.ImageLocation = (str.Trim.Substring(str.Trim.IndexOf("src="), (str.Trim.Length - str.Trim.IndexOf("src="))))


PictureBox1.ImageLocation = (str.Trim.Substring(0, str.Trim.IndexOf(" alt=")))




In the source of the HTML it has the image location in quotations so when it's going to the image location it's trying to show this location..

"http://itemdb-rs.runescape.com/2365_obj_big.gif?id=2861"

So, is there a way to get it to ignore the quotation marks? And go to what's inside of them?

[jmcilhinney]

You can use Trim to remove leading and trailing characters. Without parameters it removes whitespace but you can specify characters to trim.

That said, you'd be better off using a Regex to get the URL without all that rigmarole. There will undoubtedly be examples on the forum already so you should search.