Do I need to use the "Mid" function each time I want
to access a substring??

For example, rather than using the following:

mysubstring = Mids(src, 5, 1) ' get 5th character/string

can't I use some other array/index notation
like the following:

mysubstring = src(5)


I get the impression that my code would run a lot faster
if I could access my substrings by an index, rather than
making calls to functions such as Mids(), Instr(), etc....

thank u