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Some Simple Text Manipulation - 7/7/2007 8:13:19 AM

DiGiTAL.SkReAM

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Since I am forever running into instances where I need to pad a string, or strip off the last few or starting few characters of a string, or capping the first letter of a string, etc. I wrote myself some mini-functions.
They aren't fancy by any means, but they can really make coding a bunch nicer/simpler.











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RE: Some Simple Text Manipulation - 7/8/2007 8:27:48 AM

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Nice set of function.
Especialy useful to avoid errors.

However for...
'This function removes the number of characters on the left of the String
...I use ...
Mid(MyString, xNumber)

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RE: Some Simple Text Manipulation - 7/9/2007 12:14:57 AM

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Heh, you know, it never even occured to me that you can use Mid() like that.
However, after testing, it seems to give the proper result for the function, it would have to be
Mid(string,xNumber + 1)

The function has been modified.
Thanks!

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RE: Some Simple Text Manipulation - 7/11/2007 1:30:46 AM

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Hi DiGiTAL.SkReAM,

nice/useful code! I use (more dangerous) functions like

Function PadL( vVal, sChar, nWidth )
PadL = Right( String( nWidth, sChar ) + CStr( vVal ), nWidth )
End Function

to achieve something similiar. One proposal: How about using
Space( iNumChar - Len(s1) ) instead of String(iNumChar - Len(s1)," ")?

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RE: Some Simple Text Manipulation - 7/11/2007 1:36:26 PM

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Hi ehvbs,

Thanks for the kind words. All of it is pretty simple code, but again, so useful.

As to your Space( iNumChar - Len(s1) ) instead of String(iNumChar - Len(s1)," ") question, I use the string method, because someone might want to modify the function to pad it with zeros, or some other character instead of just being able to use spaces. With the string line, it is so easy to just modify it:
String(iNumChar - Len(s1)," ")
String(iNumChar - Len(s1),"0")
String(iNumChar - Len(s1),"~")
etc.

I guess I should have made a function that would let you pad a string with the string of your choice, said choice being passed ont he commandline, but... I didn't have a need for it right at the moment, and so didn't write it. Heh heh. It should still be easy enough for folks to modify the aformentioned line to accept an argument of a character.

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RE: Some Simple Text Manipulation - 7/13/2007 6:43:19 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: DiGiTAL.SkReAM

Heh, you know, it never even occured to me that you can use Mid() like that.
However, after testing, it seems to give the proper result for the function, it would have to be
Mid(string,xNumber + 1)

The function has been modified.
Thanks!

Because Mid is used generaly with two var's ex: Mid(text, 5, 10). If you obmit the second var, it returns everything until the end of the word. Cool.
And you are right, we must add +1.

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I guess I should have made a function that would let you pad a string with the string of your choice, said choice being passed ont he commandline, but... I didn't have a need for it right at the moment

...and because it will make a sub almost as complicated as the full code.