VS 2008 Check Text Box For Characters?
Jul 27, 2009I want to check if text box has "?" character or specific numbers (ex "14"). How can I do that? It may have all kind of other letters too.
View 14 RepliesI want to check if text box has "?" character or specific numbers (ex "14"). How can I do that? It may have all kind of other letters too.
View 14 RepliesBasically I need to make an if statement that checks the number of characters entered in a text box and pads left with 0's if there is not 3 characters entered.
Also, if letters are entered, I'd like it to produce an error message, or just not accept letters at all.
Is there someone who has done something similar in the past that might be able to help me format this textbox?
Say you have the following string: Welcome to my program!
But you only want it to show a certain amount of characters then "..." so it would look like this: welcome to m...
I'm addressing this problem because I'm making a tabbed web browser and when I create tabs I have the document title as the text, but It looks weird without it cut off, so I wanted to know how I could replace the text after say, 15 characters with
I'm making a custom control suited for handling passwords. I have created a control that inherits from a text box and I have implemented a lot of things so far. But what i want to do now is create a system so that when a user types It will display his last character typed for a X amount of time.Is there a way to turn only selected characters into password characters and still be able to get the password text from the Text property ?
View 3 Repliesi want to seperate textbox characters every 4 characters. like this:
regular text =
1234567812345678
filtered text:
[code]....
I am trying to do this but it doesn't work:
VB
Dim str As String = "07" & GetBetween("Stephen 0761234567", "07", vbNewLine)Dim op As String = "lol" TextBox1.Text.Replace(str, op)
GetBetween is just a function to match something between something else. That works fine, the string (str) sets as 0761234567 just like I want but when i try to replace the text it doesn't work.
I know that the topic is kind of weird, but I will explain that here. I am reading text from a text box and inserting that into a listbox. I am wanting to read what the user inputs into the text box and add a character between each character they type. Here is what im wanting to do written out[code]...
View 4 RepliesI am just a beginner in VB programming. What if I want to check if a certain subtext is present in a string? For example, what do I code if I want to check if the word "hello" is present in a particular string or not?
View 3 Repliesis there a way to check if a string contains characters other than numeric? ive used isnumeric quite a bit and its pretty usefull, but cant find a way to check for text in a string. Having searched around theres a few ways of doing it slowly that ive found using an array of letters and a loop / instring, but thats much more hassle than checking for numbers, so strikes me there must be a way.
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Using visual basic, I have a string. Want to check that the string contains a single, capital alphabetic character followed by a period. Tried to use Contains as in the following:
someString.Contains("[A-Z].") but this didn't return me what I wanted.
Also need to check for a single number followed by a period.
How can I do this in Visual Basic
I am using a masked TextBox, and I would like to check the input (total characters must be 14),
View 1 RepliesI want to user to enter only numbers and characters in textbox i.e no special charaters.I don't want to use key press event of textbox.As i need same validation in gridview.
So i want to validate whole string.
Is there a function in VB 2008 to check the charset of the string?
View 3 RepliesI am using this code right now
If i.Contains("1") Then
MsgBox("2")
Else
End If
But what I want to do it have it check multiple text like this
If i.Contains("1") or ("2") or ("3")Then
MsgBox("H2")
Else
End If
But that doesn't work?
Is there any way to use the TryParse method to check for letter text input?For example, a user needs to input a name in a text box. Is there anyway to check that input are all letters?
View 4 RepliesIm trying to make a program which would check for users from text file on a certain website I can populate the list box, and loop through it's items here is the code i came up with so far and it doesnt work properly, it pops out first item in the listbox, and last item only, even though that they shouldnt be popped out
Private Sub WebBrowser1_DocumentCompleted(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs) Handles WebBrowser1.DocumentCompleted
If Not ListBox1.Items.Count < 2 Then
[code].....
(this is supposed to check every user, and if user doesnt exist, website will return page not found, else user exists and his name is added to listbox2)
I am trying to auto tab to the next text box after my limit of characters has been reached in a text box. Visual Basic 2010 Can this be set in the properties? I have 7 boxes, each allowed to hold only one character.
View 5 Repliesis it possible to make first 60 characters in a rich text box a different color than the remaining text?
View 25 RepliesMy application is like this : i have to search my data from database with some check box and text box when user select check box specific function go on and then when user enters some range of value in textbox then the result will shown in data grid view after that i can print it by selecting data
my vb.net code is as follow:
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Data.SqlClient
Public Class XtraForm1
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I m also pasting the demo picture.
i trying "Removing the first 3 characters of text box's text".
i tried this
TextBox3.Text.Remove(3)
If TextBox1.Text.Length < 9 Then it have 1 charakter and it work i need that when the text is more then 9 charakters then it work.
View 6 RepliesFor example I only the second character in each line to be an x, while the 3nd to 10th character must be a hex digit.At the moment I use a Select Case, then check the position of the caret (using textbox.selectionstart) and see if the key being pressed is a "legal" character.Is there a better way of doing this as it slows down on large amounts of text.
This is the code I have at the moment:
Select Case TextBox1.SelectionStart
Case TextBox1.GetFirstCharIndexOfCurrentLine + 1
[code]......
I need a simple method of counting all characters in a text box and when a button is clicked a message must display if the amount of characters has exceeded 25.
View 4 RepliesPossibly a simple question, but I want to be able to "do nothing" if a value in a text box is less then 3 characters[code]...
View 5 Replieswrite a vb script which filtersout characters from a string
example input string is The.Quick.Red.Fox.Jumped.Over.The.Fence
and illegal characters are 'the' '.' 'Red' 'quick'
the output should be quick fox over fence
I am sending SNMP SystemName query to local host and in the output i m getting little square characters instead of the specific system name..
Imports System.Text
Class Form1
Dim commlength As Integer, miblength As Integer, datatype As Integer, datalength As Integer, datastart As Integer
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I have a string of text i captured within AutoCAD (0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000) wich is saved to a text based file named position.txt.as you probably have gatherd with a file name such as position.txt the text could be composed of any random number combination eg: (5.745379, 0.846290, 150.6459046).However for it to be of any use to me I need the captured string to exist without spaces or brackets how can i achiev this in VB.net?
View 2 Replieshow count textbox only this symbol # example:spider#spider#spider there is two hash symbols textbox count=2 like that i want to know code.
View 3 Repliesi wanted to restrict my text box to have only 10 characters.I have used the following code
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How do I have a RichTextBox text between two characters such as < and > select? [URL]
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