Murach's Visual Basic 2005
How to work with dates and strings

First, this chapter shows you how to use the properties and methods of the DateTime structure to work with dates and times. Then, this chapter shows you how to use the properties and methods of the String and StringBuilder classes to manipulate the data in strings, to validate user entries, and to format numbers, dates, and times.

Chapter 9 How to work with dates and strings
How to work with dates and times 260
How to create a DateTime value 260
How to get the current date and time 262
How to format DateTime values 262
How to get information about dates and times 264
How to perform operations on dates and times 266
How to use Visual Basic properties and functions to work with dates and times 268
How to work with strings 270
The properties and methods of the String class 270
Code examples that work with strings 272
More examples that work with strings 274
Two procedures for validating user entries 276
How to use the StringBuilder class 278
How to use the Visual Basic functions to work with strings 280
How to format numbers, dates, and times 282
How to format numbers 282
How to format dates and times 284


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