Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left : String Functions « Data Type « VB.Net Tutorial

public class Test
   public Shared Sub Main
        Dim strName As String = "Visual Basic Express"

        If Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left(strName, 3) = "Vis" Then Console.WriteLine("True")
        If strName.StartsWith("Vis") Then Console.WriteLine("True")

   End Sub
   
End class

True
True

2.38.String Functions
	2.38.1.	Passing String values to Val
	2.38.2.	Passing formatted numeric values to Val
	2.38.3.	IsNumeric, IsDate, IsNothing
	2.38.4.	Duplicate a string
	2.38.5.	Get string index by using InStr
	2.38.6.	CStr: Convert Double to String
	2.38.7.	Len: get string length
	2.38.8.	Instr
	2.38.9.	IsDBNull
	2.38.10.	Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left
	2.38.11.	String.Copy
	2.38.12.	Use String.Concat to concatenate two strings
	2.38.13.	Format: c
	2.38.14.	String handling function: Len
	2.38.15.	Left: get characters from left
	2.38.16.	Right: get characters from right
	2.38.17.	Mid(string, 4, 5): get sub string from middle
	2.38.18.	Mid(string, 7): get sub string from start
	2.38.19.	Instr: find character in a string
	2.38.20.	Instr: find sub string a in a string
	2.38.21.	LCase: change string to lower case
	2.38.22.	UCase: change string to upper case
	2.38.23.	Change string case using the English-United States and Turkish-Turkey cultures and then compare
	2.38.24.	Determines whether a string is normalized to various normalization forms(String.Normalize and the String.IsNormalized method)