Hi everyone, hope anyone of this thread can help me. I have a variable strMasked = 123456789012 , I want to convert the first few characters with “X” and retain the last the four digits as is. The output should be XXXXXXXX9012. Apparently this is my code strMasked = right(dtExcelValue.Rows(intRowCo…

HI @Greggy How about this expression? Strings.Right("123456789",4).PadLeft(CInt("123456789").ToString.count,"X"c) [image] Regards Gokul

How to Replace the first x characters of a string with a specific character

Greggy (Greggy O) October 19, 2022, 2:51am 5

Thanks @Rahul_Unnikrishnan for your help!

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