VB Forum / VB Syntax / April 2005

I must be brain fried tonight.   I am trying to test to see if a file exists
before I attempt to open it.  The help I finally found indicates
object.FileExists(filespec).  However, I just can't figure out what object?
I have the path and filename in a variable and just want to see ...

Can someone please show how to use Regular expressions to validate that the
input string is composed only from a-z and 0-9 ?
TIA
Guy

Can anyone point me to a link that confirms whether the VB functions CDate()
and DateValue() accept international date formats such as "yyyy-mm-dd" ? For
instance, the same as SQLServer does.
I've tried it with lots of different regional settings and it seems to work

Anybody have a snippet to convert very large (trillions) decimal numbers to
hex?

Here is the situation. I have a combo box in my application called
cboInfoRegion, which is supposed to get the name of the state/province for
the current customer from an access database table. For some reason, I can
not get the combo box to automatically show the name of the ...

In .net, I can SET the BackColor of a textbox using syntax such as:
   gMainForm.txtView.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Yellow
But if I try to determine whether the color of a control such as a
textbox is a particular color, I get a syntax error.  In other words,

I have recently bought VB6 and am teaching myself. I have programmed a lot in
previous years with (Sharp MZ80K) BASIC and a language on the original PSION
Organiser called OPL so I understand structures sub routines etc etc. I
understand VB and how to create forms and displays ...

Hello Experts
I want to trap the remote machines' name in the frmLogin to keep track of
the user. i dont know how to do this but in asp it is very simple to get the
ip address of the remote machine. Please if anyone can help me it would be

I have problem with metafile image handle. I have handle, but how I can get
image to the StdPicture variable?
Language is VB 6 SP6.
Thank in advance,

Hello Experts
I am using VB 6.0 - SQL Server 7.0 - and the following command
rs.MoveFirst
rs.Find "Code like 'E*'

I have been working on some code that will do a form post via HTTP and
VB(using WININET.DLL).  I can get a normal form post to run however, I can
not get a file post to run.  I have search the web mulitiple times and have
yet to get the syntax just right.

I have created a function called "GetDate"  Here is my code that I am
working with...
Private Function GetDate() As String
   Select Case Month(Now)

I would like to fulfil comment item at textfile in VBScript. This Item we can
find in Explorer. At the actual file we can view Properties and there in the
Summary is item Comment. I would like to know, which object can i use for it?
Thanks

Afternoon all,
I want to write to a log some tracing in time that goes down milliseconds.
Basically I want to report 11:22:05:234 where 234 is 234 milliseconds after
11:22:05

I've put this question in here before and got help from some people. But the
problem is that I'm a newbie with VB and the solution that I got was very
complex in nature.
I have a combo box that gets populated with names of customers from the