Deck 8: Manipulating Strings

Question 1

Another name for an access key is a shortcut key.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The difference between the Replace and the Mid statement is that the Mid statement will always replace a set of characters with another set of characters whereas the Replace method selectively replaces characters.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The Trim, TrimStart, and TrimEnd methods can remove one or more characters on a single instruction.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

To remove characters from the beginning of a string, only the Trim method is used.

Question 5

The Trim method will remove characters from the right end of a string only.

Question 6

When there are no arguments to the Trim function, nothing is removed from the string variable.

Question 7

Each menu contains a menu title that appears on the menu bar at the top of a Windows form.

Question 8

The StartsWith method can check only one character starting on the left side of the string.

Question 9

Windows standards suggest that menu title captions be one word with the first letter capitalized.

Question 10

Each menu element is a separate object with a set of properties including Name and Text properties.

Question 11

A menu item can be selected by pressing the menu item's shortcut key.

Question 12

The EndsWith method can check only one character starting on the right side of a string.

Question 13

In Visual Basic .NET, the Insert method is used to insert characters into a string.

Question 14

When using the IndexOf search method, to begin the search at the first character you specify a one as the argument.

Question 15

To determine the length of a string use the string's Length property.

Question 16

The first character in a string has an index of one.

Question 17

To substitute the characters contained in a string you use the Replace method.

Question 18

The method to remove characters from the left and right ends of a string is the TrimBoth method.

Question 19

When searching for value within string , if the IndexOf method does not find the value , it returns the number 0.

Question 20

The Trim function can remove only one character from a comma-separated list of characters.

Question 21

The Remove function uses an index value of zero for the first character in a string.

Question 22

Which Visual Basic .NET function is used to determine if the string stateName begins with "North"?

A) FromStart
B) BeginsWith
C) StartsWith
D) TrimStart

Question 23

Which Visual Basic .NET function is used to determine if the string stateName ends with "ka"?

A) StringEnd
B) LastChar
C) Ending
D) EndsWith

Question 24

A menu item can have either an access key or shortcut key but not both.

Question 25

The data for salary is entered with both dollar symbol and space; which instructions will remove the dollar symbol?

A) TrimStart("$")
B) TrimLeft("$")
C) TrimEnd("$")
D) TrimRight("$")

Question 26

The purpose of a separator bar is to visually group together the related items on a menu or submenu.

Question 27

To remove characters from the left, right, or within a string variable you should use the ____ function.

A) TrimStart
B) TrimEnd
C) Trim
D) Remove

Question 28

Clicking a command on a menu opens an additional menu of options.

Question 29

To remove characters from only the beginning of a string, the method to use is the ____ method.

A) Trim
B) TrimBegin
C) TrimStart
D) TrimLeft

Question 30

What is the result after the execution of the following code segment in Visual Basic .NET? Dim stringIn as String = "Tom Jones" Mid(stringIn, 6, 2) = "am"

A) Tam Jones
B) Tom James
C) Tom Jones
D) Tam James

Question 31

The ____ method is used to remove the "-" characters in a variable called socialSecurity that contains the value "345-00-0000".

A) socialSecurity.Remove("-" , "")
B) socialSecurity.Replace("-" , "")
C) socialSecurity.Change("-" , "")
D) socialSecurity.Trim("-" , "")

Question 32

The data for salary is entered with both dollar symbol and space; which instructions will remove the blank space symbol?

A) TrimLeft()
B) Trim()
C) TrimEnd()
D) TrimRight()

Question 33

Which of the following is an access key combination?

A) Alt + F
B) Ctrl + S
C) Shift + J
D) Tab + A

Question 34

Assume that a textbox named PhoneNumberTextBox appears on the form, and contains the phone number 414-555-5555. What value will display for the length of the phone number text box?

A) 10
B) 12
C) 18
D) 20

Question 35

The StartsWith string method will return true if a match is found and false if there is no match starting on the left side of a string.

Question 36

The following instruction will remove which character from the string first? Dim myString as string = "ABCDEFGH" myString = myString.Remove(2, 3)

A) A
B) B
C) C
D) D

Question 37

Assume that the value of the string message is "Happy New Year". What value would message.IndexOf("New") yield?

A) 2
B) 6
C) 7
D) 8

Question 38

The following instruction will remove how many characters from the string? Dim myString as string = "ABCDEFGH" myString = myString.Remove(2, 3)

A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4

Question 39

What is the value returned from the expression stateName.Substring(1,1) when stateName contains "North Dakota"?

A) N
B) o
C) t
D) a

Question 40

The method that removes characters from only the right end of a string is the ____ method.

A) Trim
B) TrimRight
C) TrimEnd
D) TrimR

Question 41

What is the result, in stringIn, after the execution of the following code segment in Visual Basic .NET? Dim stringIn as String = "abc1234" Mid(stringIn, 3, 1) = "d"

A) abd1234
B) abd12d4
C) abcd234
D) dbc1234

Question 42

Each menu element is considered a(n) ____.

A) class
B) character
C) object
D) string

Question 43

If a menu item requires additional information from the user, the Windows standard is to place a(n) ____ at the end of the menu item's caption.

A) underscore (_)
B) asterisk (*)
C) pound key (#)
D) ellipsis (…)

Question 44

The ____ property of a menu element is used by a programmer to refer to the menu element in code.

A) Text
B) Name
C) Description
D) Title

Question 45

The ____ method pads the string on the right.

A) PadEnd
B) PadRight
C) Padding
D) PadAll

Question 46

The ____ method inserts the padded characters at the beginning of the string.

A) PadStart
B) PadRight
C) PadBegin
D) PadLeft

Question 47

____ keys appear to the right of a menu item and allow you to select an item without opening the menu.

A) Shortcut
B) Access
C) Menu
D) Caption

Question 48

You can use the ____ method to insert characters within a string.

A) PadLeft
B) Insert
C) Trim
D) IndexOf

Question 49

The Substring method has ____ required argument(s).

A) 0
B) 1
C) 2
D) 3

Question 50

The ____ property of a menu element stores the menu element's caption.

A) Text
B) Name
C) Title
D) Description