I must be missing something very basic.

Attempting to parse some network received data.

It likely will come in like this:

PHONE: name, location

I'm attempting to first, determine if the left five characters are "PHONE" and if so then to pull the next characters up to the comma as one variable and the rest as a second variable.

Any thoughts on how to accomplish this?

I keep getting errors when attempting to use basic VB string functions, like LEFT ... left(string,number of characters to return)

How can I accomplish these actions without basic string functions?

Thanks!

Fritz Golman
RadioDNA

Thank you.