Thanks for the help Charlie and JMB.

My application is used to retrieve the contents of user edited text
boxes and strip out the early CR entered with the "Enter" key. I
played around with your ideas and came up with the following that
identifies the first non-CR character in the text box.

Sub FindNonCR
Dim shp As Shape
Set shp = Sheets("Assumptions").Shapes("tbNote_Test")
l = shp.TextFrame.Characters.Count

i = 1

Do While shp.TextFrame.Characters(Start:=i, Length:=1).Text = Chr(10)
If shp.TextFrame.Characters(Start:=i, Length:=1).Text = Chr(10)
Then
MsgBox "Position " & i & " is CRLF"
Else
MsgBox "Position " & i & " is " &
shp.TextFrame.Characters(Start:=i, Length:=1).Text
End If
i = i + 1
Loop

MsgBox "First non-CR is at position " & i

End Sub

For my actual app I'll only need the value (not the message boxes).

- John

Charlie wrote:
If the characters are in the other order than you specified, i.e. Chr(13)
then Chr(10) (CarriageReturn/LineFeed) you can do this

Do While Left(MyStr, 2) = vbCrLf
MyStr = Mid(MyStr, 3)
Loop


"John Michl" wrote:

Thanks. That almost works. I only want to remove those characters if
they are before the first real text in a string. Using CLEAN on my
string eliminates all of the carriage returns later on the string that
I want to keep. Something like LTRIM would be perfect but there
doesn't seem to be a LCLEAN.

What I'm trying to do is retrieve text from a text box that has been
edited by the user. I need someway to determine what position contains
the first non-special character (i.e., real text) so that I can start
the retrieval at that point.

- John

JMB wrote:
Try Excels CLEAN function

strTemp = application.clean(strTemp)



"John Michl" wrote:

Is there a function or quick VBA routine that will remove and CHR(10)
or CHR(13) characters from the begining of a string.

If not, how about someway to find the first non-special character in a
string?

Thanks for the help.

- John