Lesson 11: String Manipulation

Question 1

represents a series of characters (each representing in turn an instance of the Chardata type).

Answer 1

STRING IN VISUAL BASIC

Question 2

if you declare a string
variable using the ‘Dim’ keyword and initialize it
with a string value, it enclosed in double quotes

Answer 2

Declaring and Initializing

Question 3

a property (or treating the string as an array)

Answer 3

Chars

Question 4

a property that returns the number of characters in the
string

Answer 4

Length

Question 5

used to compare two strings and return an integer that indicates the result of the comparison.

Answer 5

THE STRCOMP FUNCTIONS

Question 6

Performs a case-sensitive comparison.

Answer 6

vbBinaryCompare:

Question 7

Performs a case-insensitive comparison.

Answer 7

vbTextCompare:

Question 8

returns an integer value which is the length of a
phrase or a sentence, including the empty spaces. The syntax is
Len (Phrase).

Answer 8

The Len function

Question 9

trims the empty spaces of the left portion
of the phrase.

Answer 9

The Ltrim function

Question 10

trims the empty spaces of the right
portion of the phrase

Answer 10

The Rtrim function

Question 11

Removes whitespace or other predefined characters from
both sides of a string.

Answer 11

THE TRIM FUNCTION

Question 12

extracts a
substring from the original phrase
or string. The syntax is:
Mid(phrase, position, n).

Answer 12

The Mid function

Question 13

looks for a phrase that is embedded
within the original phrase and returns the starting position
of the embedded phrase.

Answer 13

The InStr function

Question 14

converts all the characters of a string to capital
letters.

Answer 14

The Ucase function

Question 15

converts all the characters of
a string to small letters.

Answer 15

the Lcase function

Question 16

function that converts a number to a string

Answer 16

Str Function

Question 17

converts a string to a number.

Answer 17

Val
function

Question 18

Returns a numeric value derived from the string
string.

Answer 18

Return Value

Question 19

to convert a numeric value to a character

Answer 19

Chr() function

Question 20

to convert that character back to the original numeric value.

Answer 20

Asc() function