VBA – Remove Characters from Left or Right Side of Variable Length String

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Editorial Team

Reviewed by

Steve Rynearson

Last updated on January 10, 2022

If you always know the length of a string, it’s easy to remove characters from it. Example: If you have a string that is 10 characters and you want to remove 1 character from the Left side, simply return the right 9 characters:

msgbox Right(Mystring, 9)

This doesn’t work for a variable length string, or one which you don’t know beforehand it’s length. In this case you can use the formula (Length – N) to designate how many characters to extract:

MsgBox Right(Mystring, Len(Mystring) - 1)

Where 1 is the number of characters to remove from the left side of the string. This will return the string minus the left most character.

To remove characters from the right side of a string, replace Right with Left

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