How to access and modify a single character

[the_best_sarek]

I want to know if it's possible in Vb to access and modify a character from a string. (Btw I think that vb is really bad with the string).

If it's unclear, I mean like in Pascal string[5] would access the fifth char.

[hellswraith]

You can use the mid function to extract a exact character within a string. Or you can use the Instr function to find a specific character within a string. Or you can use the Replace function to replace characters in the string. Look these up at the MSDN library site.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/

[Megatron]

No, but you could create a work around with Left$() and Right$().

This example will replace the fifth character with a 1.

MyStr = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP"
MyStr = Left$(MyStr, 4) & "1" & Right(MyStr, Len(MyStr) - 5)
Print MyStr

[chrisjk]

Would this not be better Megatron?

Dim str As String
 
str = "Hello, this is a cool string"
 
Mid$(str, 5, 1) = "1"
 
MsgBox str

[JaredM]

Try the Replace() Function. It will find the characters you want and replace them, or any of the other functions work too. (But with a Mid or Left function you need to split it into other strings then concatenate them back together with the new character in the middle.

[chrisjk]

Originally posted by JaredM
But with a Mid or Left function you need to split it into other strings then concatenate them back together with the new character in the middle.

no you don't, see up one.

[JaredM]

Oh, good example. I didn't see it.