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End of statement expected
Public Sub _EMPPINENTERED() [b]As String() = Nothing [/b]
End Sub
Public ReadOnly Property EMPPINENTERED() As String()
Get
Return EMPPINENTERED = DesanitizeMap(Convert.ToString(EMPPINENTERED))
End Get
End Property
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*** Wild Guess! ***
You're probably trying for something like this:
You're probably trying for something like this:
Private _EMPPINENTERED As String() = Nothing
Public ReadOnly Property EMPPINENTERED As String()
Get
Return DesanitizeMap(_EMPPINENTERED)
End Get
End Property
And except for a comment, you cannot enter anything after the declaration of a sub. The thus compiler sees your As String() = Nothing as misplaced, because you should have an end of line after the ( ), thus the error message that you get
Also, As String() = Nothing is meaningless in VB syntax. You seem to be using some kind of tag, but VB does not uses tags. Where does this syntax comes from? In which language?
Éric has a very good question, and Mike a guess that is in my opinion the best thing a VB programmer could understand from what you sent us.
Please, when you post something, add some details. Seeing your code, we can easily spot why you get that particular error message, but we have not enough details with the simple post title and code to understand what you are doing and give you a solution.
Also, As String() = Nothing is meaningless in VB syntax. You seem to be using some kind of tag, but VB does not uses tags. Where does this syntax comes from? In which language?
Éric has a very good question, and Mike a guess that is in my opinion the best thing a VB programmer could understand from what you sent us.
Please, when you post something, add some details. Seeing your code, we can easily spot why you get that particular error message, but we have not enough details with the simple post title and code to understand what you are doing and give you a solution.
And seeing the result of posting my answer, where I simply cut and paste what you put at the end of the declaraion, I suddenly understand that you possibly wanted to attract the attention to that part of the code by displaying it in bold. This does not work inside of code blocks in the Expert-Exchange interface.
Which lead me to think that what you wanted to do was the following:
Public Sub _EMPPINENTERED() As String()
This does not work, because a Sub does not return any value. So, once again, you get that error message because the compiler expects the end of the line after _EMPPINENTERED().
When you want to return a value in VB, you define a Function, not a Sub.
Public Function _EMPPINENTERED() As String()
Return a 'Where a is the string array that you want to return as a result
End Function
But that would not make much sense, because why would you need a function and a property with basically the same name. Once again, Mike's guess might have more sense.
Which lead me to think that what you wanted to do was the following:
Public Sub _EMPPINENTERED() As String()
This does not work, because a Sub does not return any value. So, once again, you get that error message because the compiler expects the end of the line after _EMPPINENTERED().
When you want to return a value in VB, you define a Function, not a Sub.
Public Function _EMPPINENTERED() As String()
Return a 'Where a is the string array that you want to return as a result
End Function
But that would not make much sense, because why would you need a function and a property with basically the same name. Once again, Mike's guess might have more sense.
I'll only add that it's bad style to write a property which executes a method under the hood. As a consumer of your property, I should expect that accessing your property has no side effects on the class itself. It's apparent from the code that you've posted, but I would be concerned about what the DesanitizeMap method is actually doing. If you are going to call a method from within a property, then just make a method, and your new method calls the DesanitizeMap. Methods are expected to potentially incur side effects.
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