Re: Does VBscript support " & _" for long strings?

I'm not sure if that would be efficient in this case, Bob. I'm not picking
up the items one at a time - the list exists only in the code. I'd have 40+
lines to set each item into an array position, and _then_ Join them all into
one string? Then I pick up my text-to-look-for and use InStr to see if it's
in the list. Then again, I am the beginner here (which also means I don't
always ask questions right!), so if there's a better way to accomplish this
comparison, I'm all for it!

Ed

"Bob Barrows [MVP]" <reb01501@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In that case, you might want to consider assigning the items to an
array, using Join to combine them into the string.

Ed wrote:
Good thought, but in this case I just have one _really, really_ long
string of items to Set right at the beginning of the code. Then as I
pick up text into another string, I do an InStr to see if my text is
in the collection.

Ed

"mayayana" <mayaXXyana1a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Another thought:

This is just a matter of taste, but personally
I think it's cleaner, safer and easier to read
if it's done as a multiple concatenation:

s = "abc" & vbcrlf
s = s & "def" & vbcrlf
s = s & "ghi"
etc...

Ah! Thank you - my Copy and Paste may have done me in, then. I
will look
for that.
Ed

"Alexander Mueller" <millerax@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ed schrieb:

"Michael Harris (MVP)" <mikhar.at.mvps.dot.org> wrote in message
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Ed wrote:
I know in Word and Excel VBA macros, I can set a long string
using & vbCrLf & _
to continue the string on the next line. I seem to be getting
an error in a script using this. Then again, it may well be
something else. So I thought I'd check on this while I look
over everything else just to make sure this is okay in
scripting.

Thanks.
Ed
Yes - _ as a line continuation character is supported in
VBScript.


Thanks, Michael. At least now I know to look elsewhere for my
problems.. 8>0

Not that a trailing ' _' is legal in vb(a) but not in vbs.

msgbox "hello" _


MfG,
Alex

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