(VBScript) StringBuilder RemoveBefore

Demonstrates the StringBuilder.RemoveBefore method.

The GetBefore method was added in Chilkat v9.5.0.77

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Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.StringBuilder")
set sb = CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = sb.Append("http://www.chilkatsoft.com")

' The RemoveBefore method removes the chars up to and including the marker string.
' If the marker is not found, then nothing is removed and the method returns 0.
marker = "//"
bFound = sb.RemoveBefore(marker)

outFile.WriteLine("bFound = " & bFound)
outFile.WriteLine("sb contains: " & sb.GetAsString())

' Output is:
' bFound = 1
' sb contains: www.chilkatsoft.com

outFile.Close