VBS TUTORIAL: function-mid function _vbs

Mid function

Returns a specified number of characters from a string.

Mid(string, start[, length])

Parameters

String

A string expression from which to return a character. If string contains null, nullis returned.

Start

The start position of the extracted character part in string . If start exceeds the number of characters in string ,Mid returns a 0 length string ("").

Length

The number of characters to return. If omitted or length exceeds the number of characters in the text, including the character at start , all characters in the string ending from start to String are returned.

Description

To determine the number of characters in a string , you can use the Len function.

The following example uses the Mid function to return six characters starting from the fourth character in a string:

Mid("VBScript is fun!", 4, 6) 'MyVar  contains  "Script" .

Attention The MidB function is used in conjunction with the byte data contained in the string. The parameter is not the specified number of characters, but the number of bytes.