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ramonagail	1 Aug, 2008 - 07:47 AM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 1 Aug, 2008 Posts: 1	How do I strip the dashes out of an SSN? ...and why is it so hard to find answers to these simple little things in the vb.net books? Do they have the questions in secret-geek-code or something?
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PsychoCoder	1 Aug, 2008 - 07:57 AM Post #2
DIC.Rules == true; Joined: 26 Jul, 2007 Posts: 7,238 Thanked 52 times Dream Kudos: 7775 Expert In: VB, VB.Net, C#, SQL, ASP, ASP.Net, Web Development, HTML, CSS, Win32 API, Javascript, mySQL, J#, GDI My Contributions	You can use the Replace Method and replace all dashes with "". Like so vb Private Function StripDashes(ByRef ssn As String) As String 'First make sure we have a valid length string If ssn.Length = 11 Then 'Return theSSN without the dashes ssn = ssn.Replace("-", "") Else 'Not a valid length MessageBox.Show("Invalid SSN length") End If Return ssn End Function Hope this helps
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