Visual Basic Quickstart Guide

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Formatting and Modifying Data

Formatting data is a common task in programming languages to present data in a desired format. A programmer will also have to convert data in the same format or to a different format to allow it to be used in an algorithm.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

• Modifying string data
• Modifying numerical data
• Modifying date and time data
• Formatting numeric values
• Formatting date and time values

Modifying string data

In VB, you can modify string data using various built-in functions and operators. Here are some standard operations you can perform on string data:

Concatenation

There are a few ways to combine strings together in VB:

• The & operator: You can concatenate strings using the ...