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Mastering Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2008
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Mastering Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2008

by Evangelos Petroutsos
March 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
1152 pages
33h 45m
English
Sybex
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Chapter 13. Handling Strings, Characters, and Dates

This chapter is a formal discussion of the .NET Framework's string- and date-manipulation capabilities. We have used strings extensively in previous chapters, and you already know many of the properties and methods of the String class. Almost every application manipulates strings, so String and StringBuilder are two classes that you'll use more than any other.

Previous versions of Visual Basic provided numerous functions for manipulating strings. These functions are supported by VB 2008, and not just for compatibility reasons; they're part of the core of Visual Basic. The string-manipulation functions are still a major part of Visual Basic.

Another group of functions deals with dates. The date-manipulation ...

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