Mid Function

Description

Returns a Variant (String) containing a specified number of characters from a string.

Syntax

Mid(string, start[, length])

The Mid function syntax has these named arguments:

Part	Description

string	Required. String expression from which characters are returned. If string contains Null, Null is returned.
start	Required; Long. Character position in string at which the part to be taken begins. If start is greater than the number of characters in string, Mid returns a zero-length string (" ").
length	Optional; Variant (Long). Number of characters to return. If omitted or if there are fewer than length characters in the text (including the character at start), all characters from the start position to the end of the string are returned.

Remarks

To determine the number of characters in string, use the Len function.

Note Use the MidB function with byte data contained in a string. Instead of specifying the number of characters, the arguments specify numbers of bytes.

See Also

Left function, Len function, LTrim, RTrim, and Trim functions, Mid statement, Right function.

Example

This example uses the Mid function to return a specified number of characters from a string.

Dim MyString, FirstWord, LastWord, MidWords
MyString = "Mid Function Demo"        ' Create text string.
FirstWord = Mid(MyString, 1, 3)        ' Returns "Mid".
LastWord = Mid(MyString, 14, 4)        ' Returns "Demo".
MidWords = Mid(MyString, 5)                ' Returns "Function Demo".