VB.NET - Remove double spaces in a textbox - Asked By Ben Sebuabe on 20-Sep-14 08:29 AM

I'm using vb.net 2013 and I have this textbox that users enter their names, but I realized that they enter their names by entering so many spaces I used the replace function but it does not work well. Is there anyway to prevent this at keypress, when the user tries to press the space bar more than once?

Put your replace inside of a while loop that checks for at least one instance of two spaces.  If it finds it, it goes inside the loop and performs the replace.  If it doesn't, it exits the loop.

Thanks for your urgent response. I will try that.

Forgot to put the code in (you'll need to convert to VB.NET):

var delimiter = "  ";
var file = "Robbe    Morris  is   a super neat guy.";

while (file.Contains(delimiter))

{

   file = file.Replace(delimiter, " ").Trim();

}

Debug.WriteLine(file);

Thanks a lot, it works!! Why is it that you are the only person responding to questions? God bless you, keep it up.

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