Text Count

[PureSc0pe]

How do you Count the amount of letters in a Single Line TextBox?

 

Example: TextBox1.Text = 123456789

 

TextBox2.Text = 9 <<-- Amount of characters in TextBox1.Text

[JRichmond]

TextBox2.Text = TextBox1.Text.Length

[Denaes]

TextBox2.Text = TextBox1.Text.Length

 

That gives you a count of the characters, which includes spaces - not just letters.

 

You'd have to strip out the spaces to get JUST the number of letters.

[JRichmond]

True.

 

This would get rid of the spaces before counting the characters. Although, it would still count any tabs or other whitespace...

TextBox2.Text = TextBox1.Text.Trim(" ").Length

[PureSc0pe]

True.

 

This would get rid of the spaces before counting the characters. Although, it would still count any tabs or other whitespace...

TextBox2.Text = TextBox1.Text.Trim(" ").Length

 

Thanks, exactly what I needed. :D

[Denaes]

So how would you get just letters?

 

could you use Regular Expressions? [A-Za-z] or something like that is all letters upper or lower case.

 

One method I've seen used as the brute force method.

 

string UpperCaseLetters = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";

string LowerCaseLetters = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";

string Digits = "1234567890";

string AllLetters = UpperCaseLetters + LowerCaseLetters;

 

then do a search for characters that appear in your string, which are all of the letters. I'd place that code, but I don't have visual studio on me at the moment.

[VBAHole22]

I believe there is a regular expression for any textual character. I seem to have lost that bit of information from my brain at the moment though.