Left function in VB Express 2005

Hello Experts,

I recently migrated to VB EXpress 2005 from VB 5.0 and am having difficulty translating old VB commands in VB 2005.
I have written the following program to analyse people's names:

Option Explicit On

Public Class Form1


    Dim FirstName As String
    Dim LastName As String
    Dim FullName As String
    Dim Space As Integer
    Dim FullNameLength As Integer


    Private Sub cmdInfo_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cmdInfo.Click
        FullName = txtName.Text
        FullNameLength = Len(txtName.Text)
        Space = InStr(FullName, "")
        FirstName = Left(FullName, Space - 1)
        LastName = Right(FullName, FullNameLength - Space)

        Me.lblOutput.Text = ("your first name is " & FirstName)
        Me.lblOutput.Text = ("your last name is " & LastName)
        Me.lblOutput.Text = ("There are " & FullNameLength - 1 & " characters in your name"



    End Sub
End Class

however, the "left" or "right" function do not work as they did in VB 5.0

I get the following error message: "Public ReadOnly left() as integer has no parameters and its return type cannot be indexed"

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for your support.

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