How to? chunk or split ?

[Isa01]

Hello,

I have to work with this kind of string

dim my string = "20130612"

I would like to get 2013-06-12. (with a - as separator every 2 characters)

I can use mid(...) or substring(...), in my case
but I would like to know if there is a existing native function in vb for that.
In php, I use chunk_split(mystring, chunkLengh)

Isa

[IanRyder]

Hi,

You can convert any string that represents a true date time value using the ParseExact method of the DataTime Structure. i.e:_

Dim myDateFromString As DateTime = DateTime.ParseExact("20130612", "yyyyMMdd", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)
MsgBox(myDateFromString.ToLongDateString)

You can then format this DateTime variable to display its information in which ever format you need. Have a look here for more information:-

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...code-snippet-1

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Ian

[Isa01]

Many thanks fer reply, Ian,
I will try to use the ParseExact method

Isa