Hello,

I hope this is not a silly question.

I was researching someones elses VBA project & noticed this line of code:

row_d = a + (currentIndex - 1) \ 10 + currentIndex - 1

I know the "/" means divide by but what does the "\" do in this above
equation, it doesn't mean divide as I tried that.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Jeff

It means integer divide. It disregards any fractional part of the
result. E.g.,

8 \ 3 = 2


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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com





"Jeff" wrote in message
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Hello,

I hope this is not a silly question.

I was researching someones elses VBA project & noticed this
line of code:

row_d = a + (currentIndex - 1) \ 10 + currentIndex - 1

I know the "/" means divide by but what does the "\" do in this
above
equation, it doesn't mean divide as I tried that.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Jeff

Chip Pearson wrote:
It means integer divide. It disregards any fractional part of the
result. E.g.,

8 \ 3 = 2


Before division is performed, the numeric expressions are rounded to
Byte, Integer, or Long expressions. E.g.,

8 \ 2.5 -------- 4 (it rounds the 2.5 to 2)
8 \ 2.6 -------- 3 (it rounds the 2.6 to 3)

Alan Beban