String.Copy : String Functions « Data Type « VB.Net Tutorial

public class Test
   public Shared Sub Main
        Dim str1, str2 As String

        str1 = "some text"
        str2 = str1
        str2 = String.Copy(str1)
        Console.WriteLine(str1 & vbCrLf & str2)

   End Sub
   
End class

some text
some text

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)