Question

How to get the first N characters of a string in VB.NET

Answer 1

Imports System
 
Public Class Test
    Public Shared Function get_first_n_characters(s As String, n As Integer) As String
        If (n >= s.Length) Then
            return s 
        End If
         
        return s.Substring(0, n)
    End Function
    Public Shared Sub Main()
        Dim s As String = "c++ c php vb.net java golang nodejs"
        Dim n As Integer = 7
         
        Dim first_n_ch As String = get_first_n_characters(s, n)
          
        Console.Write(first_n_ch)
    End Sub
End Class
 
 
 
 
' run:
'
' c++ c p
'

 

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