[2005] Locating strings

[JXDOS]

I am trying to get the position of a certain string with in a textbox

e.g.

textbox1.text = "hello everyone, nice weather today!"

if string1 = nice,
position as integer will be 17

How do I get this integer through code?

[dbasnett]

look for indexof

[Sybre]

You can use instr to return the position:
Dim position as integer = instr(textbox1.text, string1)

If you want it to be case insensitive then use:
instr(textbox1.text, string1, CompareMethod.Text)

[dbasnett]

instr - old school.

[Sybre]

instr may be old school but it does return the zero based position (17 in the example) - IndexOf returns 16.
Not that it really matters so long as you know which you are getting.

[dbasnett]

but did the OP know that (almost?) everything is zero-based, and therefore 16 was really the correct answer? instr returns a 1 Based value.

[dbasnett]

        Dim aString As String = "hello everyone, nice weather today!"
        Debug.WriteLine(InStr(aString, "nice").ToString)
        Debug.WriteLine(aString.IndexOf("nice").ToString)

[Sybre]

instr returns a 1 Based value

That's what I meant to say - got it backwards when I posted (not paying enough attention, sorry).

[JXDOS]

Thanks to all for your help!