How to find the position of the first dash in a string

[Rob]

lets' say I have a value ABCD - 123

How can I return the position of the dash ?

 

[Guest]

lets' say I have a value ABCD - 123

How can I return the position of the dash ?

Do you mean that you have a string containing "ABCD - 123"? If so, use
Instr().

 

[Nate]

x = instr("ABCD - 123", "-")

 

[Kevin S Gallagher]

Dim s As String = "ABCD - 123"
s.IndexOf("-").ToString()

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

lets' say I have a value ABCD - 123

How can I return the position of the dash ?

'Strings.InStr', 'String.IndexOf'.

 

[Shane]

dim i as integer = YourString.IndexOf("-")
if i < 0 the pattern does not exist in the string, otherwise, "i" has
the offset of the start of the string.

 

[Tom Shelton]

lets' say I have a value ABCD - 123

How can I return the position of the dash ?

Dim s As String = "ABCD - 123"
Console.WriteLine (s.IndexOf ("-"))

or

Dim s As String = "ABCD - 123"
Console.WriteLine (InStr (s, "-"))

 

[zacks]

Do you mean that you have a string containing "ABCD - 123"? If so, use
Instr().

The "proper" .NET way would be to use the IndexOf method.

 

[Andrew Morton]

The "proper" .NET way would be to use the IndexOf method.

But surely, then you should check that the string isn't Nothing first or you
could get an ArgumentNullException . Why do you consider the VB.NET method
as not "proper" when programming in VB.NET? Would you exclusively use
"String.Concat" rather than "&" ?.

Andrew