Characters before @

[saurabh mohal]

I have for e.g saurabh@yahoo.com in Textbox i only want characters before @ i.e saurabh. What should be the property for textbox to do this..?

[Christian Graus]

The Text property gives you the string. IT's a string, it has methods for finding characters. Or you can use a RegEx, if you want, but it's not needed to just find the @. I'd use the split method for that.

Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.

[saurabh mohal]

Sorry i dint get your ans can u describe me using some example..!!

[Brij]

Textbox returns string.You can use split function.

Cheers!! Brij

[Abhijit Jana]

saurabh mohal wrote:

I have for e.g saurabh@yahoo.com in Textbox i only want characters before @ i.e saurabh. What should be the property for textbox to do this..?

I didn't get your point.:confused: You want something MaskedTextbox (in Windows Form)

cheers, Abhijit My Recent Article : Beginner's Guide to ASP.NET Application Folder

[ChandraRam]

Christian has already given you the key words to search for "string" and "split" - now you should probably look in your book or google for it.

[Christian Graus]

If you're incapable of using google or exploring the methods on the string class using intellisense, perhaps the world has lost a janitor without gaining a programmer ?

Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.

[Blue_Boy]

Well, Christian gived you answer but I will give you too example. string email = textBoxName.Text.Substring(0,textBoxName.Text.IndexOf("@"));

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