i have records that contain 10 chars
sample is str000001
dr00000001
ste0000001
how do i know one by one that char is a number or not?

if i enter dr1 it will serach for dr00000001
or ste23 , it will seacrh for ste0000023
hope u understan dit

you may need to extract the string portion and numeric portion seperately and add to the string portion the the numeric portion stuffed with the required number of zeroes and then use it for seach in the database

Regards
Ganesh

Hi Ganesh,

how can i extrct those string, Im having trouble using the exact syntax in string manipulation using vb.net
tnx

There is no exact syntax in VB.NET for string manipulation.To extract portion of the string you need to use substring().
why you need to check each character as char or not?Can you explain it?

Code

       Dim str As String
       str = "ste00001"
       Dim strR As String = str.Replace("0", "")

The above code will remove all the "0" in the string str and you can use tht strR string value to search for the record.

The output will be like the strR will contain "ste1"

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but how much love we put in the doing.

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tnx pradeep,
ok so we allready remove the 0's
 here's the existing database in sql2000
( Im working on acctng system which has exsiting dtabase and i need to create a new one coded in vb.net, they dont have the source code for the vb6.) i dont need to redesign the databse, heres the design

trno seq bref doc docno
2 1 SGJ GJ SGJ0000001
3 2 SGJ GJ SGJ0000002
4 3 SGJ GJ SGJ0000003
5 4 SGJ GJ SGJ0000004
6 5 SGJ GJ SGJ0000005
7 6 SGJ GJ SGJ0000006

trno is the pri key
notice the field (seq) it’s the same with the numeric format in docno

the existing software CAN search SGJ1 and it will FIND SGJ00000001,

using ur code wer able to remove the zeroes , but I don’t know how to continue it,
tnx very much

Hey I am seeing the pattern that doc and seq forms the docno, Is that true? Also are you using DataSet? if it is so then I can give you the code like how can you search for the value.

It is not how much we do,
but how much love we put in the doing.

-Mother Theresa

trno seq bref doc docno
2 1 SGJ GJ SGJ0000001
3 2 SGJ GJ SGJ0000002
4 3 SGJ GJ SGJ0000003
5 4 SGJ GJ SGJ0000004
6 5 SGJ GJ SGJ0000005
7 6 SGJ GJ SGJ0000006

hi pradeep, its seq, and bref combne it and u have docno

ok I have a solution for you

Dim dt As DataTable = data.Tables("TableName")
dt.Columns.Add("docnoWithoutZero", GetType(String), _
   "bref + seq")

So it will add one more column to your table as follows

trno seq bref doc docno docnoWithoutZero
2 1 SGJ GJ SGJ0000001 SGJ1
3 2 SGJ GJ SGJ0000002 SGJ2
4 3 SGJ GJ SGJ0000003 SGJ3
5 4 SGJ GJ SGJ0000004 SGJ4

etc., You need not worry about the extrac column here. Now while searching for the particular value, you can do as follows


DataRow[] Rows = data.Tables("TableName").Select("docnoWithoutZero= "+textBox1.Text);

So the above "Select" method will return set of rows with the value you are searching for.

Now you can check whether you have the value like this

if Rows.Count > 0 then
  ' The value is found
endif




It is not how much we do,
but how much love we put in the doing.

-Mother Theresa

tnx pradeep

again :)