Too many Line continuations

[Mungovan]

hi,
I have a string in my VB code. When assigning a value to it I get an error saying that I have too many line continuations. I can't get around this because I need all of the lines. Any ideas of how to get out of this?

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myString = "xxxxxxxxxx" & _
"yyyyyyyyyy" & _
.....
.....
.....
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Thanks,
D

 

[KCI]

The compiler is refering to the number of "& _"'s that you are using not the number of "&" that you are using. So just combine every other line like this.

myString = "xxxxxxxxxx" & "yyyyyyyyyy" & _
"....." & "....." & _
.....

making three line continuations rather than five.

good luck,
KCI

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Confucious

 

[Mungovan]

Thanks,
Is there any way of getting around this, basically I'll need to concantinate over 100 lines of code!!

Thanks,
D

 

[KCI]

Yes, use multiple variable like this.

a = "1" & "2"

b = a & "3" & "4"

c = b & "5" & "6"

d = c & "7" & "8"

?d
"12345678"

good luck
KCI

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Martin Luther King

 

[gusset]

i've solved this problem in other ways. my favourite technique is to take the information from a text file or resource string. what is the code?

 

[chiph]

KCI's method works, but has the drawback of needing many temp variables. Try this instead:

str = ""
str = str & "xxxxxxxxx"
str = str & "yyyyyyyyy"
str = str & "zzzzzzzzz"

By doing it this way you only need one variable.

Chip H.

 

[KCI]

Point well taken. Chip H. is absolutely correct. His suggestion will be much faster since OS paging will be minimized. (Good eye Chip). ~

KCI

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