Strings and String Handling

One of the most powerful aspects of Visual Basic—and the envy of developers using most other languages—is the ease with which it lets you work with strings. Visual Basic’s built-in string functions, which were further improved in version 6, are the key to an amazing array of capabilities. Strings are the way that much data is represented, and data handling is what most Visual Basic programs are all about, so this chapter is dedicated to the examination, parsing, and changing of the beloved string.