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January 5, 2002

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Trimming strings

Visual Basic .NET strings expose three trim methods: TrimStart, TrimEnd, and Trim – which trim one or more characters from the beginning, the end, or both the beginning and end

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Weekday names in any language

The System.Globalization.CultureInfo object exposes two properties, NumberFormat and DateTimeFormat, which return information about how numbers and dates are formatted according to a given locale. For example, consider this code: ‘

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Locale-aware string conversions

You can use the usual UCase, LCase, and StrConv functions to convert a string to upper, lower, and titlecase (e.g. “This Is A Title”). However, VB.NET offers is much more

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Iterating over the characters in a string

Visual Basic .NET strings support the For Each statement, so you can iterate over each individual character as follows: Dim s As String = “ABCDE”Dim c As CharFor Each c

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An Improved escape() Function in Javascript

Currently Javascript’s escape() has some limitations. For instance, if you want to pass a+b not a b, you want to get the literal “+” in the server side. Javascript’s escape