Set up string constant like vbcrlf

[Glasgow]

Is it possible to set up a string constant containing a binary or hex value. The code below achieves what I want:

Private Const FldDelim As String = "ÿ"

but ideally I'd use something like:

Private Const FldDelim As String = Chr(255) 'This
Private Const FldDelim As String = "&HFF"   'or this

but one is illegal and the other is nonsense. If there is an answer, I imagine it's very simple!

Thanks in advance.

 

[EBGreen]

The second of your ideal solutions should be fine. Do you get an error?

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[Glasgow]

Thanks for reply. I don't get an error but it creates a four character text string "&", "H", "F", "F" when I want a one character binary string - if that makes sense.

 

[EBGreen]

It does make sense and I think the answer to your initial question would then be no. A constant assignment cannot have any operations on the right hand side of the = sign as far as I know.

[red]"... isn't sanity really just a one trick pony anyway?! I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you are good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" - The Tick[/red]

 

[Glasgow]

OK I half expected that was the case but was hoping there may be a way of assigning a hex value to a string constant in a similar way that you could for an integer.

As it is, I can just do a print chr(<value>) in the debugger then paste the result into the literal so I can get there though arguably in a less readable fashion.

Thanks again.

 

[SkipVought]

A constant MUST be supplied an expression.

However,

You can't use variables, user-defined functions, or intrinsic Visual Basic functions (such as Chr) in expressions assigned to constants.

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[Glasgow]

Thanks Skip - I do understand that. It's just that, in a flavour of BASIC I used when Moses was my boss, you could assign a string to "<255>" but it was interpreted as a single character (equivalent to chr(255)). Something similar in VB might have overcome my problem.

 

[SkipVought]

Are you affirming that you were there when Moses was given the A Commandments?


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[Glasgow]

Yes - actually he had planned a full F commandments but we ran out of time on the project. The others were just more nonsense to do with neighbours' wives, asses etc.

 

[SkipVought]

So was the Moses the first to use the Let statement?

And didn't Moses have 10 siblings; Aaron and Miriam?

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[DrJavaJoe]

What is wrong with this?:

Private Const FldDelim As String = "ÿ"



Two strings walk into a bar. The first string says to the bartender: 'Bartender, I'll have a beer. u.5n$x5t?*&4ru!2[sACC~ErJ'. The second string says: 'Pardon my friend, he isn't NULL terminated'.

 

[Glasgow]

Initially, Thou and Shalt were also keywords.

He didn't talk about his family much - just shouted at me lots when my 'part the waters' program kept crashing when he was only half way across.

 

[Glasgow]

Sorry DrJavaJoe, back to the subject! Nothing's drastically wrong with it, it's just a bit less meaningful to someone looking at the code. I've added a comment which gets over that I guess.

 

[bjd4jc]

You guys are too funny

 

[SkipVought]

Moses was also the first to [red][&cent;][/red]

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[petermeachem]

What is wrong with

Private Const FldDelim As String = &HFF

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[DrJavaJoe]

He want the string to contain ÿ not 255.



Two strings walk into a bar. The first string says to the bartender: 'Bartender, I'll have a beer. u.5n$x5t?*&4ru!2[sACC~ErJ'. The second string says: 'Pardon my friend, he isn't NULL terminated'.

 

[SkipVought]

    Const W = &HFF
    MsgBox Chr(W)

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[strongm]

Just for fun, how about:

Const ASCII255 = "ÿ"

which would be pretty descriptive ...

Or, if you insist on requiring a Const called W, then you could do:

Const ASCII255 = "ÿ"
Const W = ASCII255

 

[Glasgow]

Thanks everyone - for the ideas and the giggles!

Only reason I wouldn't use the name ASCII255 is that this is being used as a delimiter and one day I may decide that a different value is more appropriate. Thanks anyway.