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  • J jhwurmbach

    SalarSoft wrote:

    IF TextBox1.Text=1 or 2 or 3 THEN

    Being VB illiterate... This does work as I fear it does? It sets the TextBox1.text to be "1" and then branches into the THEN, because 2 is equal to TRUE?

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    CPallini
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    jhwurmbach wrote:

    It sets the TextBox1.text to be "1"

    Nope. Since it follows the IF statement, VB evaluates TextBox1.Text=1 as a conditional expression (I don't know if it results in a run-time error).

    jhwurmbach wrote:

    and then branches into the THEN, because 2 is equal to TRUE?

    Yes. :)

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      jhwurmbach wrote:

      It sets the TextBox1.text to be "1"

      Nope. Since it follows the IF statement, VB evaluates TextBox1.Text=1 as a conditional expression (I don't know if it results in a run-time error).

      jhwurmbach wrote:

      and then branches into the THEN, because 2 is equal to TRUE?

      Yes. :)

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      Robert Royall
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      CPallini wrote:

      (I don't know if it results in a run-time error)

      It shouldn't; nearly all flavors of VB automatically coerce numerics into strings.

      Please don't bother me... I'm hacking right now. Don't look at me like that - doesn't anybody remember what "hacking" really means? :sigh:

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      • R Robert Royall

        CPallini wrote:

        (I don't know if it results in a run-time error)

        It shouldn't; nearly all flavors of VB automatically coerce numerics into strings.

        Please don't bother me... I'm hacking right now. Don't look at me like that - doesn't anybody remember what "hacking" really means? :sigh:

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        CPallini
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        Robert Royall wrote:

        It shouldn't; nearly all flavors of VB automatically coerce numerics into strings.

        I was quite confident about too, but my VBA actually doesn't like the mix. Unfortunately I have no VB6 at hand. :)

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          Robert Royall wrote:

          It shouldn't; nearly all flavors of VB automatically coerce numerics into strings.

          I was quite confident about too, but my VBA actually doesn't like the mix. Unfortunately I have no VB6 at hand. :)

          If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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          Robert Royall
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          Really? Works fine for me in Access 2003. It will throw an error if Textbox1 is empty, since you can't coerce a comparison with an empty string (or a null).

          Please don't bother me... I'm hacking right now. Don't look at me like that - doesn't anybody remember what "hacking" really means? :sigh:

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            Robert Royall wrote:

            It shouldn't; nearly all flavors of VB automatically coerce numerics into strings.

            I was quite confident about too, but my VBA actually doesn't like the mix. Unfortunately I have no VB6 at hand. :)

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            Luc Pattyn
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            CPallini wrote:

            Unfortunately I have no VB6 at hand

            Unfortunately X|

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              Did you sack her for?

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              SalarSoft
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              No, we deported her and her friend cause they didn't skilled and they did lots of such mistakes ( I remember their nightmare creatures ). For example she named a function to something like this "girgo". X| Because of this naming, my friends named her "girgo". :laugh: Now the corporation focused on C#

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              • R Robert Royall

                Really? Works fine for me in Access 2003. It will throw an error if Textbox1 is empty, since you can't coerce a comparison with an empty string (or a null).

                Please don't bother me... I'm hacking right now. Don't look at me like that - doesn't anybody remember what "hacking" really means? :sigh:

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                CPallini
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                Robert Royall wrote:

                Really?

                Yes.

                Robert Royall wrote:

                Works fine for me in Access 2003.

                I'm using Excel 2002. But I think that VBA version difference doesn't really matter in this case.

                Robert Royall wrote:

                It will throw an error if Textbox1 is empty, since you can't coerce a comparison with an empty string (or a null).

                IMHO it will NOT throw only if the Textbox1.Text value can be coerced to a number (i.e. Runtime Error if Textbox1.Text is equal to "foo"). :)

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                • L Luc Pattyn

                  CPallini wrote:

                  Unfortunately I have no VB6 at hand

                  Unfortunately X|

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                  CPallini
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                  In fact I like a lot of weird things... ;)

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                    Robert Royall wrote:

                    Really?

                    Yes.

                    Robert Royall wrote:

                    Works fine for me in Access 2003.

                    I'm using Excel 2002. But I think that VBA version difference doesn't really matter in this case.

                    Robert Royall wrote:

                    It will throw an error if Textbox1 is empty, since you can't coerce a comparison with an empty string (or a null).

                    IMHO it will NOT throw only if the Textbox1.Text value can be coerced to a number (i.e. Runtime Error if Textbox1.Text is equal to "foo"). :)

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                    Robert Royall
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                    CPallini wrote:

                    Runtime Error if Textbox1.Text is equal to "foo"

                    But... why on earth would that throw a Runtime Error? F00 is 3840... :wtf:

                    Please don't bother me... I'm hacking right now. Don't look at me like that - doesn't anybody remember what "hacking" really means? :sigh:

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                    • R Robert Royall

                      CPallini wrote:

                      Runtime Error if Textbox1.Text is equal to "foo"

                      But... why on earth would that throw a Runtime Error? F00 is 3840... :wtf:

                      Please don't bother me... I'm hacking right now. Don't look at me like that - doesn't anybody remember what "hacking" really means? :sigh:

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                      CPallini
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                      Because VB isn't such smart on number representations :-D

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                        Robert Royall wrote:

                        It shouldn't; nearly all flavors of VB automatically coerce numerics into strings.

                        I was quite confident about too, but my VBA actually doesn't like the mix. Unfortunately I have no VB6 at hand. :)

                        If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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                        CPallini wrote:

                        Unfortunately I have no VB6 at hand.

                        You're lucky! ;P

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                          CPallini wrote:

                          Unfortunately I have no VB6 at hand.

                          You're lucky! ;P

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                          CPallini
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                          Nope. http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/View.aspx?fid=392254&msg=2393634[^] :-D

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                          • S SalarSoft

                            One of our former staff wrote this professional IF clause in VB.NET(Hell language) IF TextBox1.Text=1 or 2 or 3 THEN ' Go to hell END IF :wtf: I tried to write codes like this, but couldn't. Can you help to write? :omg:

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                            Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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                            SalarSoft wrote:

                            VB.NET

                            That is why it is Very Bad.

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                            • R Rich Insley

                              It's not uncommon at all to see coders express their frustrations in the code they write. For an entertaining afternoon of reading, go to http://www.google.com/codesearch[^] and enter the profanity of your choice. You'd be amazed what people say.

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                              John R Shaw
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                              :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Thanks for the link, I needed a good laugh. ;)

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                                It's not uncommon at all to see coders express their frustrations in the code they write. For an entertaining afternoon of reading, go to http://www.google.com/codesearch[^] and enter the profanity of your choice. You'd be amazed what people say.

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                                JohnnyLocust wrote:

                                http://www.google.com/codesearch

                                Very interesting. Put in my name and found an old Java program I wrote back in college.

                                "I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon

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                                  Nope. http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/View.aspx?fid=392254&msg=2393634[^] :-D

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                                  This kind of thing is standard shortcut syntax in COBOL (or was when I last used COBOL many years ago): IF X = 1 OR 2 THEN... is the same as IF X = 1 OR X = 2 THEN... The big gotcha comes when you add a NOT into the mix. All new COBOL programmers would at some point write a statement like: IF X NOT = 1 OR 2 THEN.. which unfortunately expands to IF X NOT = 1 OR X NOT = 2 THEN.. so the condition is always satisfied. Some of those beginners learn from the experience and don't make the mistake again. Others, however....

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                                    This kind of thing is standard shortcut syntax in COBOL (or was when I last used COBOL many years ago): IF X = 1 OR 2 THEN... is the same as IF X = 1 OR X = 2 THEN... The big gotcha comes when you add a NOT into the mix. All new COBOL programmers would at some point write a statement like: IF X NOT = 1 OR 2 THEN.. which unfortunately expands to IF X NOT = 1 OR X NOT = 2 THEN.. so the condition is always satisfied. Some of those beginners learn from the experience and don't make the mistake again. Others, however....

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                                    CPallini
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                                    Member 2560472 wrote:

                                    Some of those beginners learn from the experience

                                    ...and quicky abandon COBOL. :laugh:

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                                    • R Rich Insley

                                      It's not uncommon at all to see coders express their frustrations in the code they write. For an entertaining afternoon of reading, go to http://www.google.com/codesearch[^] and enter the profanity of your choice. You'd be amazed what people say.

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                                      TheGreatAndPowerfulOz
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