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Visual Basic: Replace Explained!

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Visual Basic: Replace Explained!

ViRuaL
This tutorial will go over how to effectively use the Replace function in Visual Basic.

1. So you have a string. Whether it be a label caption, an entry in a text box by the user of your program, or an item in a combo box. Let's say this is a bad string, something you do not want to appear. For instance, a user types "X is gay" in a text box, and you want to change that to something else. You can simply have it be deleted, or replaced with another value.

2. To make this work when a user types something in a textbox, you will need to use this sub:
CODE
Private Sub Text1_Change()

End Sub

Then we'll use the replace function. This looks like:
CODE
Replace(Expression, WhatToReplace, ReplaceWithWhat)


3. Now we want to find the text "X is gay" in the textbox. Remember our Text1_Change() Sub? We'll now insert the following code inside that sub.
CODE
Private Sub Text1_Change()
Dim txt
txt = Text1.Text
If InStr(1, Text1.Text, "X is gay") > 0 Then
Text1.Text = Replace(txt, "X is gay", "User is gay")
End If
End Sub


4. Done! What this code does is look for the value "X is gay" in Text1.Text, and if that is greater than 0 (meaning true) it replaces text in Text1.Text with "User is gay"

That's all there is to it. If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail me at ViRuaL@gmail.com. If you thought this was completely useless, feel free to flame it into oblivion.

 

 

 


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miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
Good job wink.gif Come back and post some more of such cool tips & tricks smile.gif

All the best,
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ViRuaL
Why thank you. smile.gif
I will be posting a lot of cool things I've learned... Looking forward to my free hosting tongue.gif. Anyway, off to write my Start Button Editor post... Completely original code that I think is very cool.

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FeedBacker
I've been trying to figure this out for a while and this seems almost there... but when I add another "Remove" line only the top one works... any ideas?

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VB replacing strings...
Visual Basic: Replace Explained!

How to relplace an oldword with an new word???

-question by Sukanya

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(G)Markeh
@Sukanya
Visual Basic: Replace Explained!

Sukanya, to replace an odd word use the following:

Dim txt
RplWord
RplWord = "Word" ' Word you want to look for
ReplaceM = "NewWord" ' What is going to be replaced with
Txt = Text1.Text

If InStr(1, Text1.Text, rplWord) > 0 Then
     Text1.Text = Replace(txt, rplWord, "replaceM)
End If

This will search Text1 for 'Word' and if it exists, replace's it with 'NewWord'. :)

-reply by Markeh

 


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(G)Josh
Made better calculator with this
Visual Basic: Replace Explained!

Thanks! I couldn't figure out how to get my calculator (that I made) to replace the answer from the last problem when you pressed a number. For example, If I pressed 9x9 and =, the screen would show 81. Then if I pressed 7, it would show 817. Now it starts a new problem :D

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