Easy General VB question...

[hipopony66]

Ok, I have a filename saved as a string. The filname is:

"Superdrag - Lighting the Way"

I want to separate the two and save them as two separate strings. Like:

strArtist= Superdrag
strSong= Lighting the Way

So basically, I want to find the "-" in the filename and the then take what's on the left side of it and save as one string, and then take what's on the right side of it and save as another string.

Any help appreciated.

[John McKernan]

Use the Split() function

[hipopony66]

I've never used that before. Can someone give an example?

[John McKernan]

Split returns a one-dimensional array of substrings (zero-based) So...

arrayStrings = Split("Superdrag - Lighting the Way", " - ")

and now...

arrayStrings(0) = "Superdrag"
arrayStrings(1) = "Lighting the Way"

[Edneeis]

Private Type TFileInfo
  Artist as string
  Song as string
End Type
 
Public Function GetFileInfo(Filename as string) as TFileInfo
  dim parts() as string
  parts=Split(Filename," - ")
On Error resume next
  GetFileInfo.Artist=parts(0)
  GetFileInfo.Song=parts(1)
End Function
 
'use it like this
dim fInfo as TFileInfo
 
fInfo=GetFileInfo("Superdrag - Lighting the Way")
Msgbox fInfo.Song,,fInfo.Artist

[hipopony66]

The filename will not always be the same, so I need whatever is on the left of the "-" to be one string.

[John McKernan]

In both examples (mine and Edneeis's), the text on the left side of the string will be stored in the 0-element of the array, and the text on the right side will be stored in the 1-element.