[Research] Visual Basic - String Manipulation

StrComp-

Overloads: 0

Parameters: String1:String, String2:String, Compare:CompareMethod

Return type: Integer
Exceptions: ArgumentException

Details:

StrComp compares String2 to String1, based on the (optional) Compare parameter. If String1 comes BEFORE String2 (in order), the return will be a -1, if they are the same, it will return a 0, if it comes AFTER String 2, it will return a -1.


StrConv-

Overloads: 11

Parameters: str:String, Conversion:VbStrConv, LocaleID:Integer

Return type: String
Exceptions: ArgumentException

Details:

StrConv converts str using the VbStrConv function. for example. VbStrConv.LowerCase will return a string with all lower case letters.


StrReverse-

Overloads: 0

Parameters: Expression:String

Return type: String
Exceptions: N/A

Details:

StrReverse just reverses the order of the entire string.



StrTrim-

Overloads: 0

Parameters: str:String

Return type: String
Exceptions: N/A

Details:

StrTrim removes all leading and trailing spaces. ie, no spaces at the start, or at the end of the string.

Strings.Join-

Overloads: 0

Parameters: SourceArray:String, Delimiter:String

Return type: String
Exceptions: ArgumentException

Details:

Strings.Join will get all the values, or the specific value, from an array or string, and add them together. The Delimiter will add a certain characters (default a space) between each item that is joined. If an array has the numbers 1 to 10, and the delimiter was a colon ":", the output would be 1:2:3:4:5 etc.

Strings.Replace-

Overloads: 0

Parameters: Expression:String, Find:String, Replacement:String, Start:Integer, Count:Integer, Compare:CompareMethod
Return: String

Exceptions: ArgumentException

Details: This function replaces certain strings or characters with others, within a source string. Count counts how many have been replaced. Start is the integer location of the start of the string to search to replace.