Syntax for removing spaces

[fkheng]

How do I remove spaces from a string if I only want a single word? What is the method for doing it?

[zy_abc]

If you want to extract a single letter from a word you can use "SubString". If you want to remove blank spaces then you can use "Trim"

[dynamic_sysop]

Dim strString As String
strString = "some text"
strString = Replace(strString , Chr(32) , "" )
'// strString now would show as "sometext"

[fkheng]

i see, thanx, will try these out, very helpful indeed...

[Mothra]

Isn't that what .Trim is for?

[fkheng]

yeah, it is, but i did not know before...

[iebidan]

Trim will do the trick

 

Dim myString as String = "     Your Name Here     "
myString = Trim(myString)

[Bucky]

Or, yet another option, split up the trimmed text into words by

using the Split method, and then access the word in an array.

 

Dim s As String = "  this is a test   "
Dim words() As String

words = s.Trim().Split(" "c)

Console.WriteLine(words(1)) ' Displays "is"

[Grimfort]

In .Net if you use the built in functions created specifically for a class, you get better performance, and its also easier.

 

For those of you new to .net, just and an extra STOP charcater at the end of a variable, in this case you can do

 

strString = strString.Replace(" ","")

[fkheng]

wat do u mean by this stop character?

[Bucky]

He means the period character. In other words, use the native

functions of the String class to perform string manipulation, rather

than the old VB6 methods.

 

For example, instead of myString = Trim(myString) (bad), use

myString = myString.Trim()