VB automatically overrides my capitalization
I prefix string variables with "s", and integer variables with "i".
I made the mistake of dimensioning:
Dim sTR As String.
Instead of troubling to spell the variable out: sTableRuns
I have an integer:
Dim iTR As Integer.
iTR is computed. I wish to convert it to a string:
sTR = Str$(iTR)
But VB changes this to sTR$(iTR)
Realizing my mistake, I renamed the variables iTableRuns and sTableRuns.
But it is apparently too late.
Now, VB insists on re-formatting the function name Str$ to sTR$, and it doesn't work!
Help! What can I do?
I tried a global find and replace. It said it made the replacement, but it didn't.
There has got to be an option buried somewhere to turn this automatic editing feature off. I don't know where it is.
I made the mistake of dimensioning:
Dim sTR As String.
Instead of troubling to spell the variable out: sTableRuns
I have an integer:
Dim iTR As Integer.
iTR is computed. I wish to convert it to a string:
sTR = Str$(iTR)
But VB changes this to sTR$(iTR)
Realizing my mistake, I renamed the variables iTableRuns and sTableRuns.
But it is apparently too late.
Now, VB insists on re-formatting the function name Str$ to sTR$, and it doesn't work!
Help! What can I do?
I tried a global find and replace. It said it made the replacement, but it didn't.
There has got to be an option buried somewhere to turn this automatic editing feature off. I don't know where it is.
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Yes, $ is optional.
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GrahamScan: You are correct. I've seen this happen before. When naming variables, stay away from reserved names. But there are a lot of those.
The moral is: Don't be lazy with abbreviated variable names.
kbirecki: Not trusting a global find-and-replace, I tediously went through the entire code, renaming that variable. Didn't help. Str stayed sTR. But today, when I reclaimed the code from Source Safe, the problem fixed itself!
SourceSafe probably has nothing to do with it. AFTER renaming the variable, storing, exiting, then re-loading seemed to do the trick.
Question: Is that "$" in "Str$()" necessary? I think it is a back-compatible thing for code written in the old Quick Basic", and the function itself works with or without the "$". Correct?
Thank you all for your help. I thought I was in deep trouble.
- - Norma