First 2 letters in textbox

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I need to read the first 2 letters of a textbox.

Any idee's or links ?

Posted 9-May-13 9:41am

Frits wrijfhout

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 9-May-13 15:44pm

Does this require ideas?!
—SA

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Solution 1

Use TextBox.Text. And some minimal common sense.

Links? No, sorry. You did not bother to give us exact type name of the "TextBox" (do you know how many different type under this name are there?), but you can easily find a link using Google or Bing. Especially if you give it a fully-qualified name.

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Posted 9-May-13 9:46am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Maciej Los 9-May-13 16:31pm

+5

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 9-May-13 17:01pm

Thank you, Maciej.
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ZurdoDev · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-09T09:47:00

Solution 2

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Dim str as String
str = TextBox1.Text.Substring(0,2)

Posted 9-May-13 9:47am

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Maciej Los 9-May-13 16:31pm

+5

Johnny J. 10-May-13 7:33am

Just one thing: The OP will need to check that the text in the textbox is long enough, otherwise your code will generate an exception.

If TextBox1.Text.Length >=2 Then
str = TextBox1.Text.Substring(0,2)
End If

Sorry for pointing it out. It's common knowledge of course, but it doesn't seem like the OP has much experience in VB.NET...

ZurdoDev 10-May-13 7:46am

Good catch. Thank you.

pdoxtader 10-May-13 8:57am

Yes, and he may want to trim the text in the textbox - unless he wants the 2 possible empty spaces. ( str = TextBox1.Text.Trim.Substring(0,2) )