String Manipulation in Excel VBA

In this chapter, you'll find the most important functions to manipulate strings in Excel VBA.

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Join Strings

We use the & operator to concatenate (join) strings.

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Note: to insert a space, use " "

Left

To extract the leftmost characters from a string, use Left.

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Right

To extract the rightmost characters from a string, use Right. We can also directly insert text in a function.

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Mid

To extract a substring, starting in the middle of a string, use Mid.

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Note: started at position 9 (t) with length 2. You can omit the third argument if you want to extract a substring starting in the middle of a string, until the end of the string.

Len

To get the length of a string, use Len.

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Note: space (position 8) included!

InStr

To find the position of a substring in a string, use InStr.

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Note: string "am" found at position 3. Visit our page about the InStr function for more information and examples.