Programming Visual Basic .NET, Second Edition

Manipulating Strings

The String class provides a host of methods for comparing, searching, and manipulating strings, the most important of which are shown in Table 10-1.

Table 10-1.  String class methods

Method or field	Explanation
Chars	The string indexer
Compare( )	Overloaded public shared method that compares two strings
Copy( )	Public shared method that creates a new string by copying another
Equals( )	Overloaded public shared and instance method that determines if two strings have the same value
Format( )	Overloaded public shared method that formats a string using a format specification
Length	The number of characters in the instance
PadLeft( )	Right-aligns the characters in the string, padding to the left with spaces or a specified character
PadRight( )	Left-aligns the characters in the string, padding to the right with spaces or a specified character
Remove( )	Deletes the specified number of characters
Split( )	Divides a string, returning the substrings delimited by the specified characters
StartsWith( )	Indicates if the string starts with the specified characters
SubString( )	Retrieves a substring
ToCharArray( )	Copies the characters from the string to a character array
ToLower( )	Returns a copy of the string in lowercase
ToUpper( )	Returns a copy of the string in uppercase
Trim( )	Removes all occurrences of a set of specified characters from beginning and end of the string
TrimEnd( )	Behaves like Trim( ...