newbi question on character validation

11 Feb 2006 12:48 AM

joe.minga@gmail.com

This is an assignment for an VB intro class and I have no experience.
Any help would be appreciated.

I need to accept users name as input and then check for the existence
of a specific letter in the name. (the letter 'e') If it exists in
their name, reply one way, if not, reply another way. Question: whats
the best (simplest) way to check each character of the input and
compare it with the specific letter?

TIA,
-minga

11 Feb 2006 1:22 AM

Dennis

Check out the string method .indexof or .contains

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"joe.mi***@gmail.com" wrote:

> This is an assignment for an VB intro class and I have no experience.
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> I need to accept users name as input and then check for the existence
> of a specific letter in the name. (the letter 'e') If it exists in
> their name, reply one way, if not, reply another way. Question: whats
> the best (simplest) way to check each character of the input and
> compare it with the specific letter?
>
> TIA,
> -minga
>
>

11 Feb 2006 2:58 AM

_AnonCoward

<joe.mi***@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:1139618897.960048.69680@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
: This is an assignment for an VB intro class and I have no experience.
: Any help would be appreciated.
:
: I need to accept users name as input and then check for the existence
: of a specific letter in the name. (the letter 'e') If it exists in
: their name, reply one way, if not, reply another way. Question: whats
: the best (simplest) way to check each character of the input and
: compare it with the specific letter?
:
: TIA,
: -minga

Since you are defining "best" as being the "simplest", I'd say try the Instr
function. If you need to check for the character independent of case (e.g.:
"e" or "E"), then also check out the LCase and UCase functions.

Ralf

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