Get last 5 characters in a string

Question

I want to get the last 5 digits/characters from a string. For example, from \"I will be going to school in 2011!\", I would like to get \"2011!\".<

Answer 1

The accepted answer of this post will cause error in the case when the string length is lest than 5. So i have a better solution. We can use this simple code :

If(str.Length <= 5, str, str.Substring(str.Length - 5))

You can test it with variable length string.

    Dim str, result As String
    str = "11!"
    result = If(str.Length <= 5, str, str.Substring(str.Length - 5))
    MessageBox.Show(result)
    str = "I will be going to school in 2011!"
    result = If(str.Length <= 5, str, str.Substring(str.Length - 5))
    MessageBox.Show(result)

Another simple but efficient solution i found :

str.Substring(str.Length - Math.Min(5, str.Length))