I want to change userId to ****. I want to count length of a userId and change the string to that many asterisks. I also want to take the account number and replace all characters except the last 4 XXXX.
How do I do these things?
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A:
Your first one - assuming that your userId is only contains characters A-Z
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace("userID", "[A-z]", "*")
Chris Diver
2010-07-08 14:58:30
what do I do if I want to replace all character in userId not only alpha it can have unserscores numbers or alpha
2010-07-08 15:03:43
change the regular expression `[A-z]` to `\w` which will match A-z 0-9 and _
Chris Diver
2010-07-08 15:05:48
There are *other* ways of manipulating strings besides regexes :) `userid = New String("*"c, userid.Length)`
MarkJ
2010-07-08 16:34:29
+1
A:
Assuming accountNumber and userid are strings
Dim userid As String = "1234"
Dim accountNumber As String = "1234-5678-9876"
userid = New String("*"c, userid.Length)
accountNumber = New String("X"c, accountNumber.Length - 4) &
Right(accountNumber, 4)
MsgBox(userid + vbCrLf + accountNumber)
Martin Smith
2010-07-08 15:02:16