Complex Text Strings|Variables
 

Hello

I have a VBA program which creates scripts. Large portions of the script
are "static" so I do not want to clutter the code for writing the "variable"
part of the script with the static content (200 lines).

I thought a solution would be to have a string variable which is equal to
the static portion of the script then append it to the variable portion once
it has been created, then save out the final appended file to disk.

The static portion is 200 lines of text, however. How can I create a text
variable in VBA to "equal" the static 200 lines of text?

Many thanks in advance

W

Complex Text Strings|Variables
 

Not sure what you mean.
Are you meaning self-modifying code? In which case you'll need to do a
search for VBE in help
There are some examples on my website.
Chip Pearson has some good information too:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/vbe.htm


If you're meaning some very long string:

str = "this is line 1" & vbNewLine & _
"this is line 2" & vbNewLine
str = str & _
"this is line 3" & vbNewLine & _
"this is line 4" & vbNewLine


--
Rob van Gelder - http://www.vangelder.co.nz/excel


"cogent" wrote in message
...
Hello

I have a VBA program which creates scripts. Large portions of the script
are "static" so I do not want to clutter the code for writing the
"variable"
part of the script with the static content (200 lines).

I thought a solution would be to have a string variable which is equal to
the static portion of the script then append it to the variable portion
once
it has been created, then save out the final appended file to disk.

The static portion is 200 lines of text, however. How can I create a text
variable in VBA to "equal" the static 200 lines of text?

Many thanks in advance

W

Complex Text Strings|Variables
 

Store the static 200 lines in a text file and have your program read
the file contents into a variable.
Or paste the 200lines into a cell and read it from there.


Tim.


"cogent" wrote in message
...
Hello

I have a VBA program which creates scripts. Large portions of the
script
are "static" so I do not want to clutter the code for writing the
"variable"
part of the script with the static content (200 lines).

I thought a solution would be to have a string variable which is
equal to
the static portion of the script then append it to the variable
portion once
it has been created, then save out the final appended file to disk.

The static portion is 200 lines of text, however. How can I create
a text
variable in VBA to "equal" the static 200 lines of text?

Many thanks in advance

W

Complex Text Strings|Variables
 

On a side note - does anyone know the max length of a single string
variable? I thought I'd read somewhere that it's 65536 chars, but that
might've been for an earlier version of vba or for vb6.



On or about 06/04/2004 15:13, Tim Williams was seen in the vicinity and
allegedly stated:


Store the static 200 lines in a text file and have your program read
the file contents into a variable.
Or paste the 200lines into a cell and read it from there.


Tim.


"cogent" wrote in message
...

Hello

I have a VBA program which creates scripts. Large portions of the

script

are "static" so I do not want to clutter the code for writing the

"variable"

part of the script with the static content (200 lines).

I thought a solution would be to have a string variable which is

equal to

the static portion of the script then append it to the variable

portion once

it has been created, then save out the final appended file to disk.

The static portion is 200 lines of text, however. How can I create

a text

variable in VBA to "equal" the static 200 lines of text?

Many thanks in advance

W

Complex Text Strings|Variables
 

String limits:
Fixed length 2^16 (~ 65000)
Variable Length 2^31 (~ 2 billion)

--
Rob van Gelder - http://www.vangelder.co.nz/excel


"Graeme Whelan" wrote in message
...
On a side note - does anyone know the max length of a single string
variable? I thought I'd read somewhere that it's 65536 chars, but that
might've been for an earlier version of vba or for vb6.



On or about 06/04/2004 15:13, Tim Williams was seen in the vicinity and
allegedly stated:


Store the static 200 lines in a text file and have your program read
the file contents into a variable.
Or paste the 200lines into a cell and read it from there.


Tim.


"cogent" wrote in message
...

Hello

I have a VBA program which creates scripts. Large portions of the

script

are "static" so I do not want to clutter the code for writing the

"variable"

part of the script with the static content (200 lines).

I thought a solution would be to have a string variable which is

equal to

the static portion of the script then append it to the variable

portion once

it has been created, then save out the final appended file to disk.

The static portion is 200 lines of text, however. How can I create

a text

variable in VBA to "equal" the static 200 lines of text?

Many thanks in advance

W