Declaring a string question

[QuietRiot]

I noticed today in someone's code they used:

Dim Fund$, FundName$

I'm assuming this delcares a string? What's the difference between that and this?

Dim Fund as String, FundName as string

 

[VoG]

No difference.

 

[xenou]

For the benefit of others who don't know these shortcuts (ahem), I'd not use them. The string identifier, of course, is clear enough, but the longs, ints, doubles, bytes, etc. really never stuck in my brain....

Dim a$, a&, a#, a???

This one is interesting, though:
Date$
Returning a string value for Date rather than a Date serial.

 

[Norie]

Alexander

I take it you found Date$ either in Help or the every useful ObjectBrowser?

I've also looked through various resources but can't really see the need/point/explanation for doing this.

Unless for it's for use in some other app that requires it in that format.

 

[xenou]

I found it in my "VB & VBA in a nutshell" - my all time favorite VB book. Strangely getting poor reviews on Amazon, too. As if a book that simply has the information you need is not up to snuff! I confess, I've never used a function with $ at the end - but it seems a nice idea.

 

[Norie]

Alexander

You have 'books' about this sort of thing?

I've got 2 I think but the best references I find are on line:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb665965.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb149067.aspx

 

[xenou]

Yes - I really like my "nutshell" book. Frankly, I love books period. They surround me as if I'd been shipwrecked with them.

Alex