A string is a line of text.
For example:
Dim example As String = "whatever text you want"
Would make a string that says "whatever text you want"
Later, you can use this for a msgbox or textbox
Example:
TextBox1.Text = example '(that is the string we made)
or
MsgBox(example, MsgBoxStyle.Information, "Note!") '(would display a msgbox containing the text in the string)
string length is a function use to check the lenght of a string i.e number of alphabets in a word or sentence.
Trunicate is when you trim a string in visual basic
Val() function is used in Visual Basic 6.0 to convert a string to a numeric value (such as integer, double etc.) or to extract a numeric value out of a string, as illustrated below.Val function as used to convert a string to a numeric valuefor example, let str be a string,Dim str as stringDim int as integerstr="09090"int=val(str)gives int = 9090also, used to extract the numeric part out of a following string,ie. a=val("98ASR_tyui") would give a=98however,b=val("The89")would give b=0 as there is no numeric value preceding the string.
A function is essentially a subroutine that is ment to be used by other subroutines.
(it used to be) DATE$
Dim i as double = CDbl("12")
In visual Basic, the tab character has several representations:ChrW(9)vbTabControlChars.TabConvert.ToChar(Keys.Tab)Of these, the last is supported by all .NET languages (including C# where '\t' can also be used).To insert a tab into a Visual Basic string:Dim text As String = "abc"text.Insert (1, vbTab)To insert an ampersand, use the character literal '&':text.Insert (2, '&');
Rounding in Visual Basic is the method of rounding an integer up, or flooring an integer, which is rounding down. To round up, you use the System.Math.Round function. To round down, or floor, you use the System.Math.Floor function.
Visual Basic Controls work on Visual Studio for Visual Basic and Applications that made by Visual Basic.
The function is Sqr() in VB6 and Math.Sqr() in .NET.
Visual Basic was started in 1991.
Visual Basic was created by a team at Microsoft.