Article:		StringBuilders Explained
Subject:		VB example
Date:		2003-07-22 08:26:31
From:		anonymous2
Actually this example won't work at all in VB: Dim st As String st = "Hello" st += " World!" in VB you need to do the following to concatenate a string: st = "Hello" st = st & " World!" Moreover, while I agree that VB has some useful functions for string manipulation, it is definitely not that great, as it lacks string interpolation, escape chars, etc.

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• VB example
  2003-07-22 16:46:19  Wei-Meng Lee | [View]
  
  
  Oh yes...sorry about that. Please replace:
  st += " World!" with st = st & " World!"
  I kept thinking that "+=" was supported in VB6.
  
• VB example
  2004-01-05 09:32:06  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Dim x As String
  x = "Hello"
  x += " World"
  
  The use of += is valid in VB.NET, the above code will return "Hello World"
  
• VB example
  2003-07-24 05:50:55  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  asides, it's more advisable to use the "&" operator with strings instead of "+" because of the mathematical meaning attached to the latter.
  
  fa...