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

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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