Get last 5 characters in a string

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I want to get the last 5 digits characters from a string  For example  from  I will be going to school in 2011    I would like to get  2011     Any ideas  I know Visual Basic has Right string  5   this didn t work for me and gave me an error

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Old thread  but just only to say  to use the classic Left    Right    Mid   right now you don t need to write the full path  Microsoft VisualBasic Strings   You can use fast and easily like this   Strings Right yourString  5

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Error check   result   str Substring Math Max 0  str Length - 5

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Checks for errors   Dim result As String   str If str Length  gt  5 Then     result   str Substring str Length - 5  End If

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I opened this thread looking for a quick solution to a simple question  but I found that the answers here were either not helpful or overly complicated  The best way to get the last 5 chars of a string is  in fact  to use the Right   method    Here is a simple example   Dim sMyString  sLast5 As String  sMyString    I will be going to school in 2011   sLast5   Right sMyString  - 5  MsgBox  sLast5      amp  sLast5    If you re getting an error then there is probably something wrong with your syntax   Also  with the Right   method you don t need to worry much about going over or under the string length   In my example you could type in 10000 instead of 5 and it would just MsgBox the whole string  or if sMyString was NULL or     the message box would just pop up with nothing

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str Substring str Length - 5

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in VB 2008  VB 9 0  and later  prefix Right   as Microsoft VisualBasic Right string  number of characters   Dim str as String    Hello World   Msgbox Microsoft VisualBasic Right str 5     World   Same goes for Left   too

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Dim a As String   Microsoft VisualBasic right  I will be going to school in 2011    5  MsgBox  the value is    amp  a

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The accepted answer of this post will cause error in the case when the string length is lest than 5  So i have a better solution  We can use this simple code    If str Length  lt   5  str  str Substring str Length - 5     You can test it with variable length string       Dim str  result As String     str    11       result   If str Length  lt   5  str  str Substring str Length - 5       MessageBox Show result      str    I will be going to school in 2011       result   If str Length  lt   5  str  str Substring str Length - 5       MessageBox Show result    Another simple but efficient solution i found    str Substring str Length - Math Min 5  str Length

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