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Compare two substrings using different cultures and ignoring the case of the substrings
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Imports System
Imports System.Globalization
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
Class Sample
Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim str1 As [String] = "abc"
Dim str2 As [String] = "ABC"
Dim str As [String]
Dim result As Integer
Console.WriteLine("str1 = '{0}', str2 = '{1}'", str1, str2)
Console.WriteLine("Ignore case, Turkish culture:")
result = [String].Compare(str1, 4, str2, 4, 2, True, New CultureInfo("tr-TR"))
str = IIf(result < 0, "less than", IIf(result > 0, "greater than", "equal to"))
Console.Write("Substring '{0}' in '{1}' is ", str1.Substring(4, 2), str1)
Console.Write("{0} ", str)
Console.WriteLine("substring '{0}' in '{1}'.", str2.Substring(4, 2), str2)
Console.WriteLine("Ignore case, invariant culture:")
result = [String].Compare(str1, 4, str2, 4, 2, True, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)
str = IIf(result < 0, "less than", IIf(result > 0, "greater than", "equal to"))
Console.Write("Substring '{0}' in '{1}' is ", str1.Substring(4, 2), str1)
Console.Write("{0} ", str)
Console.WriteLine("substring '{0}' in '{1}'.", str2.Substring(4, 2), str2)
End Sub
End Class
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