Auto generate customer id

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I'm working customer database project. Front end is vb.net and back end is ms access.

I could work product id can generate automatically. In this id contain first letter of customer and first two letter in product type continues numeric.

Example: customer name- stalin, product type- dell in this case product id can generate "sde001". I want help how to retrieve this two string?

Posted 31-Oct-11 0:14am

ckulasekaran

Updated 31-Oct-11 0:16am

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Om Prakash Pant · Answer 1 · 2011-10-31T03:13:00

you can use substring for this. example:

VB

Dim x As String = "I am me"

'This is the Left : Result "I"
Debug.WriteLine(x.Substring(0, 1))

'This is the Mid : Result "am"
Debug.WriteLine(x.Substring(2, 2))

'This is the Right : Result "me"
Debug.WriteLine(x.Substring(x.Length - 2, 2))

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