variable intialisation

[AQWQ]

U people may find my question a bit funny..but i have a doubt in variable declaration in VB.what does this mean
Dim hello$ as string.
My question is that what difference does the declaration have if the variable name ends with a $ symbol?does it have any added advantage?? please help me out.

Thanx in Advance Santhosh Ravindran

 

[JohnYingling]

The $ is not necessary in the declaration. The "As String" does the job. However, use MID$, Left$, Trim$ etc with strings so a string is returned instead of variant with a sting inside.

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[StaceyG]

Yeah, you probably have an example where someone was duplicating stuff.
You can declare a variable
Dim strName$
and that is the same as saying
Dim strName as string
Currency datatype is the @ symbol
Dim curtotal@
Integer datatype is the % symbol
Dim intNum%
VB Help lists them all