I need to select the first 5 letters in textbox1 and ..................

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I need to select the first 5 letters in textbox1 and the first 5 letters in textbox 2 and separate them with a - like: xxxxx-xxxxx into another textbox.

anyone have any suggestions?

Posted 13-Dec-12 14:18pm

PTG.Jake

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If you can't even attempt this, you need to buy a beginners book and read it.

string s = textbox1.text.substring(0,5) + "-" + textbox2.text.substring(0,5)

Of course, this will blow up if there's less than 5 chars in the textbox, you need to add code to deal with that. and in general, for get ASP.NET, you're too much of a beginner to worry about that. Learn how to do basic code first.

Posted 13-Dec-12 14:28pm

Christian Graus

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PTG.Jake · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-13T15:26:00

this is what i ended up doing: thanks for the help though Christian. I ended up changing them to dropdownlists but it works the same for textboxes.

VB

Dim mystring As String = DropDownList3.SelectedItem.Text.ToString()
Dim substring As String = mystring.Substring(0, 5)

Dim mystring2 As String = DropDownList4.SelectedItem.Text.ToString()
Dim substring2 As String = mystring2.Substring(0, 4)

Dim mystring3 As String = TDropDownList.SelectedItem.Text.ToString()
Dim substring3 As String = mystring3.Substring(0, 3)

refnumber.Text = substring + "-" + substring2 + "-" + substring3