Mid Function

       

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, as in double-byte character set languages. Instead of specifying the number of characters, the arguments specify numbers of bytes. For sample code that uses MidB, see the second example in the example topic.