Trim

[Lightning]

What is the difference between trim and trim$?

[Merri]

To my knowledge, there is no difference. My VB help doesn't say anything about Trim$ though. I guess it's the same command. I guess there can be Mid$ too and it's no different from normal...

Correct if I'm wrong. But I can't think of any reason for them to be different.


Edit: just to notice, I've used VB for five years

[brucevde]

All string functions in VB have two versions, one with a $ and one without. The functions that end in a $ return a String while the others return a Variant (of string type). I was surprised that this wasn't mentioned in the help file.

The $ functions are somewhat faster than their counterparts because typically there is no need to perform any datatype conversions.

[Merri]

The reason might be that I have old Visual Basic 4 and it's help file. But it's very nice to know this

[chemicalNova]

Iv'e read that the $ are ment to be used only for strings and the Mid() Trim() should be used for only integers.....but it works both ways...