help getting parts of a string with vb.net

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I have these machine names at work that has its location in the 3456 letter our of 10 or 12 letters. I have been searching google for how to split a string but havent found what im looking for to make this work.

the machine names look like this DDXXXX000000 now i need to get the XXXX value. help would be great or if someone can point me in the right direction that would be great.

Posted 5-Apr-12 14:49pm

Zachary.shupp

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2012-04-05T15:21:00

Solution 1

What's wrong with System.String.Split or System.String.Substring? Did you see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.aspx[^]?

—SA

Posted 5-Apr-12 15:21pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Zachary.shupp 5-Apr-12 21:23pm

Im just not understanding how to get those 4 from it. could your provide and example?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-Apr-12 1:16am

"Just"? Was that the reason for not reading the MSDN article? Your original question was already the abuse...
--SA

Manoj K Bhoir 6-Apr-12 0:08am

Just Write Following Code :

MessageBox.Show("DDXXXX000000".SubString(2,4))

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-Apr-12 1:17am

Thank you, Manoj.
--SA

|V_J_Reddy| · Answer 2 · 2012-04-05T17:28:00

Solution 2

Use Substring method of string class to get the required sub string as shown below

VB

Sub Main
    Dim MachineName as string = "DDXXXX000000"
    Dim Location as String = MachineName.Substring(2,4)
    Console.WriteLine(Location)
End Sub

Posted 5-Apr-12 17:28pm

|V_J_Reddy|