Question : Returning Parts of String Variables in VB

I’m really new to Visual Basic and can’t find a particular string function. In Pascal, if I wanted to test the first three characters of a string, I could use the Copy command as follows:

AString:='Washington';
BString:=Copy(AString,1,3);

In this example, BString would be “Was” because the Copy function as used in the example returns three characters of AString starting at character position 1.

Is there a similar function in VB that I can use to return parts of strings?

Answer : Returning Parts of String Variables in VB

Or, more flexibly:
 
Bstring = Mid(Astring, 1, 3)