Dissecting a String

Summary: VBA is a versatile programming language. It is especially good at working with string data. Here are the different VBA functions you can use to pull text strings apart in one way or another. (This tip works with Microsoft Excel 97, Excel 2000, Excel 2002, Excel 2003, and Excel 2007.)

If you have used BASIC before, you will be right at home with the string functions provided by VBA. The following table details the most common string functions and what they return.

Function		Comments
Left(Source, Count)		Returns the left Count characters of Source text.
Mid(Source, Start [, Count])		Returns the portion of Source text beginning with the Start character. If Count is supplied, then the result is limited to that many characters.
Right(Source, Count)		Returns the right Count characters of Source text.

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