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If you want your strings routines to be as fast as possible, learn C. If you don't want to learn C use string mapping, its nearly as fast and pure VB. In this article I give you the silver bullet for strings. If strings are bottlenecking your code, I'm your new best friend. I've included a project that attempts to visualize the string for you. It also contains a word count comparision which uses four methods string mapping being the fastest by far (compiled).

This Function Searches a user defined string for a user defined search criteria it will return the postion of matchs in an array also will replace or remove criteria from string

Break up variables in a string, whatever separator is used.

Updated to v1.1, Fixed few bugs. I always feel I loose a lot of time formating my msgbox strings. String Maker is a program that formats your "normal text" into a variable string usable in visual basic. Lets say, for example, you want a msgbox to show this: ------------------------------------- Warning: The "input" parameters found in the data size field can generate a general protection error ------------------------------------- String maker will format it for you to just copy and paste like this: MyString = "-------------------------------------" & vbNewLine MyString = MyString & " Warning:" & vbNewLine MyString = MyString & "The " & chr(34) & "input" & chr(34) & "parameters" & vbNewLine MyString = MyString & "found in the data size" & vbNewLine MyString = MyString & "field can generate a" & vbNewLine MyString = MyString & "general protection error" & vbNewLine MyString = MyString & "-------------------------------------" Then you could use it like: MsgBox mystring It also has the capability to create SQL table strings: MyString = "CREATE TABLE [tblThisTable] (" MyString = MyString & "[fldBinary] Binary(20)," MyString = MyString & "[fldBit] BIT," MyString = MyString & "[fildInteger] Short," MyString = MyString & "[fldText] Text(240)" MyString = MyString & ")" All you have to do is execute the string like dbobject.execute mystring. And, as always, it also shows the use of MDI projects, menus, tray icon, popup menu in the tray icon, selections, etc... You are allowed and encouraged to continue this project to grow its capabilities... just keep me informed. Thanx to the guy of the tray area control. Note that you must use the exit menu command to close the program, since pressing the X button in the window's controls will just send the program to the tray area... Pretty much like audiogalaxy. -Fongus

This Class will convert a variety of numbers passed as string to their long winded english couterpart. It handles currency, Decimals and percents. The range is -999,999,999,999,999 to 999,999,999,999,999. returns an error description if it occurs.

This program has a TON of String Manipulation, showing several examples of virtually every String Manipulation technique. Very cool! Check it out.

This code duplicates the functionality of VB6's split function.

This is a combination of InStr and the Like operator. It returns the position of a mask within a string. The parameters are all user friendly variants just like the regular InStr function. Example: InStrLike("Test String 123abc45 Stuff","###*##") returns 13, because 123abc45 matches the mask and it starts at character 13. Hope this is useful to somebody.

This is a InStrRev function for VB5. I took a look at the one microsoft recomend, and almost died of laughter.

Nice feature to help users edit textboxes. The code selects all the existing text when the users focus on the textbox control. This will definitely make your application more user friendly. Please Vote!!!

The following code is a Visual Basic function that returns a specific "token" (section/substring of data) from a delimited string list. The function accepts the index of the desired token and also the delimiter as specified by the programmer.

Encode/Decode a string. (BMTEncode refined version). If f.ex. enter AA the 2 output chars wont be the same.

format a text field into a $ currency field.

Visual Basic 6 has a new function called InStrRev, which searches a string from right to left. I found it very usefeul, so much so that a project of mine relies completely on it. When I tried to work on the project at another location on VB5 I found that the function did not exist. So, I wrote it. I left out the compare method, you can add it if you want

I was just poking around this site, and noticed that a lot of folks were making the copy/paste/cut/undo functions more difficult then they really needs to be. Rather then writing your own functions, make use of the SendMessage API and let Windows do the work for you.

This demo shows some of the capabilities of editing RichTextBox tags to achieve very fast global formatting. Great for Syntax Highlighting etc.

A FAST and EASY way to count the number of occurrences of one string within another! Please vote for this tip if you find it useful.

The original source code was from someone (AndrComm or Sebastien?) else. I recode the whole thing, but having reference to the original. Anyway thanks, whoever who are who wrote the original code (yeahh.. all creadits to him) since i learnt some performance optimization (my original codes are tremendously slow).I did some code clean up and comments. The encode speed increased by 20%, decoded speed increased by 30%. Here's the best results that i come out with: file : command.com (93,040 bytes) load : 2.56 mb/sec (n/a in original code) save : 3.39 mb/sec (n/a in original code) encode : 7.17 mb/sec (20% faster, original code runs at 6.05 mb/sec) decode : 7.31 mb/sec (30% faster, original code runs at 5.61 mb/sec) Here's the changes I've made : 1. *REWROTE* code clean up (i think it should be more readable) 2. *REWROTE* encode and decode table is created together. 3. *REWROTE* sub DECODE rewrote (should be faster). 4. *REWROTE* sub SPAN and UNSPAN now supports SpanSeparator. 5. *ADDED* More detailed co1mments for novice, not experts 6. *ADDED* some form controls, for input and output. 7. *ADDED* file loading and saving feature 8. *FIXED* encode / decode rate calculation fixed... more accurate should be 1 sec = 1024 ticks (kernel 1044 ticks?) and 1 mb = 1048576 bytes. (1024b x 1024b) and some other minor corrections as well...

4 functions to handle command line options...example: yourprogy.exe -F, etc...one of them checks if a commandline option is in the command line....another one creates a commandline set with options...another one removes a specified option from the command line, and return the cmdline...(example: sometext -F, to sometext)...and the last one pulls out the text between 2 options in the commandline, and returns it...so -S blah -E would return just "blah"..can be very usefull...