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[chan]

explaination needed!

i had seen some of the functions have '$' mark before the parentheses and some don with the same functions such as chr$() or chr() and ucase$() or ucase().

izit the returned value will converted to string ?

went will we use either of it ?

thank !

[Yonatan]

They work the same. The one without the dollar sign is waaaaay cuter.

[Jop]

Someone here told it's a bit faster 'cause VB doesn't have to find out what type to pass, so if you pass the $ with it ($ means (As) String), VB knows it's a string and doesn't have to convert it.

Doing
Dim Str$
is the same as
Dim Str As String

% = integer
& = long

there are more but I keep forgetting these.
@ = currency?
# = single or double?

Kedaman knows them all.

[paulw]

$: String
%: Integer
&: Long
!: Single
#: Double
@: Currency

Cheers,

Paul.

[chan]

em ...

Jop, izint the chr() should convert from ascii code to character format . the chr$() is telling vb that ascii code is string , is that what u mean ?

[paulw]

These can be used creatively.

i.e.

...go to the pub. OK, I can't be & because i'm no longer ! and the wife keeps me on a very short $. If you are buying, mine's a #, I haven't got any @.

If anyone can fit % in, they are better than me

Cheers,

P.

[tumblingdown]

Our local zoo has a tiger, affectionatley known as 'teger'.
I took my baby sister to the zoo to see it. While my back was turned, the tiger ate my sister! Everybody saw it but me. I shouted "Where's my sister?"

Everybody pointed and said...

"Over there, %"




(poor, i know;-)

td.

[Yonatan]

Originally posted by chan
em ...

Jop, izint the chr() should convert from ascii code to character format . the chr$() is telling vb that ascii code is string , is that what u mean ?

No: As I said, Chr() and Chr$() are exactly the same, except Chr() looks better when someone sees your code.
("Ewwww, what's this ugly dollar sign doing here?")

[kedaman]

how can you say that Yonayan! I love the dollar sign, well some ppl don't like money i know but well i'm not talking about that now, !#$@& looks much nicer than as **** or C**()