getting a substring

[tictike]

I'm new to asp.net.

compatabilityInfo.Text += "<br><b>" + reader.GetString(1) + "/b>&nbsp;" + reader.GetString(2);


compatabilityInfo is the id of a literal control. After the above string is concatenated I need to remove the first 4 characters ( the first "<br>" ).

I was going to build a substring starting at the third character and going to the last. I'm wondering if I can treat compatability.Text just like any other string. Or is it different because it's referencing a literal control?

[NightStalker-DNS]

You can do exactly that.

compatabilityInfo.Text = compatabilityInfo.Text.Substring(4);

or

compatabilityInfo.Text = compatabilityInfo.Text.Replace("<br>",""); //This will remove all <br> occurrences in the string if you need to.

I hope this helps

[tictike]

That worked, thank you. Does Substring(4) only need a second value if I was not trying to extract up to the last character?

[NightStalker-DNS]

That worked, thank you. Does Substring(4) only need a second value if I was not trying to extract up to the last character?

Yes, thats correct. The second parameter is length. So you can set how many chars you want to get back, and if left out just goes to the end of the string