"Evalute" function with VBA Statement

[Jaafar Tribak]

Hi all,

I guess this is not possible in vba :

MsgBox Evaluate("IIF(1=1,True,False)")

Am I correct ?

Thanks.

 

[lrobbo314]

In VBA and Excel you use "If". "IIF" is an Access thing.

 

[joeu2004]

IIf() is a VBA function. The Evaluate string must be an Excel formula, with or without a leading "=". In fact, it is executed in the Excel thread.

So you would write MsgBox Evaluate("IF(1=1,true,false)"). Capitalization does not matter.

PS.... And like an Excel formula, cells are referenced by Excel name, not by the VBA Range and Cells objects.

For example, MsgBox Evaluate("IF(A1=B1,C1,D1)"). That references those cells in the active worksheet.

 

[lrobbo314]

Huh... I'll be ****ed. 10+ years on this forum, I've never seen it used. Interesting.

 

[Jaafar Tribak]

@joeu2004

Thanks for the confirmation ... Evaluate works only on excel formulaes and values and names not on vba statements such as IIF... that's what I thought.

Thanks Irobbo314 as well.

 

[Rick Rothstein]

@joeu2004

Thanks for the confirmation ... Evaluate works only on excel formulaes and values and names not on vba statements such as IIF... that's what I thought.

It is my understanding that VBA function are compiled (I guess at run time). The argument to the Evaluate function is a text string, so the VBA compiler would not be able to see VBA functions within it. My guess is that Evaluate passes its argument off to Excel for handling just like the formula in a cell would be. So, my conclusion is that the Evaluate function cannot evaluate VBA functions.

 

[Jaafar Tribak]

@Rick Rothstein

Thank you for the info .

Regards.