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Manipulating Strings

String-handling functions split, join, transform, and otherwise modify String data. Table 6-4 lists the String functions that Visual Basic .NET provides.

Table 6-4. Visual Basic .NET String Handling Functions 

Result Type	Function	Description
Integer	StrComp	Compares two strings and returns the result.
Long	Len	Returns the number of characters in a string or the number of bytes required to store a variable.
Long	InStr	Returns the first position of one string within another, searching from left to right.
Long	InStrRev	Returns the first position of one string within another, searching from right to left.
Char	GetChar	Returns the character from the specified index in a given string.
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