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  • E ednrg

    The first 2 letters in the language should tell you why that code exists. :laugh:

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    GibbleCH
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    Exactly, any real programmer would write "if (!true)"

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      maybe, I'd've used a regex to match on the start of a line. I know notepad doesn't do that, can it match on the newline char itself?

      Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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      PIEBALDconsult
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      dan neely wrote:

      can it match on the newline char itself

      Not that I've found, I usually resort to opening the file in Word to do that. X|

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      • B BillW33

        Maybe the programmer thought they would enable that section of code later? Even then, it is better, IMO, to comment out the section of code until it is needed. Bill W

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        Dan Neely
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        actually it was originally needed, but subsequently "commented out" code.

        Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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        • D Dan Neely

          Seen in a VBA app in lieu of commenting out/deleting 138 lines of junk code. Yes, the VBA editor is a steaming pile of excrement, but any decent text editor will let you insert the ' via a global insert/replace. :((

          Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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          Paul Conrad
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          dan neely wrote:

          the VBA editor is a steaming pile of excrement

          Well put.

          "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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          • D Dan Neely

            Seen in a VBA app in lieu of commenting out/deleting 138 lines of junk code. Yes, the VBA editor is a steaming pile of excrement, but any decent text editor will let you insert the ' via a global insert/replace. :((

            Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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            Baconbutty
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            code code code GOTO leap_over dodgy code that should have been commented leap_over: continue from here yet another use for GOTO :)

            I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)

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              code code code GOTO leap_over dodgy code that should have been commented leap_over: continue from here yet another use for GOTO :)

              I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)

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              PaulPrice
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              GOTO rules, lets start the fight to bring this wonderful statement back into acceptable use...

              Just racking up the postings

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              • B BillW33

                Maybe the programmer thought they would enable that section of code later? Even then, it is better, IMO, to comment out the section of code until it is needed. Bill W

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                Star Vega
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                even better than if (2 == 2) :laugh:

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                • P PaulPrice

                  GOTO rules, lets start the fight to bring this wonderful statement back into acceptable use...

                  Just racking up the postings

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                  Baconbutty
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                  I have no problems at all using GOTO in small sections of code. Beats all that complicated logic and program flow nonsense :)

                  I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)

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                  • D Dan Neely

                    Seen in a VBA app in lieu of commenting out/deleting 138 lines of junk code. Yes, the VBA editor is a steaming pile of excrement, but any decent text editor will let you insert the ' via a global insert/replace. :((

                    Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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                    ChandraRam
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                    dan neely wrote:

                    but any decent text editor will let you insert the ' via a global insert/replace.

                    AFAIK, the VBA editor within any MS Office application does have this feature...

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                      dan neely wrote:

                      but any decent text editor will let you insert the ' via a global insert/replace.

                      AFAIK, the VBA editor within any MS Office application does have this feature...

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                      Dan Neely
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                      IF so, could you please tell me where? I can't find it in excel 2k7.

                      Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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                      • D Dan Neely

                        IF so, could you please tell me where? I can't find it in excel 2k7.

                        Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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                        ChandraRam
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                        Well, I don't use MS Office 2007... :) In 2003 though, it is a button in the "Edit" tool bar (Menu -> View -> Toolbars)

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                          Well, I don't use MS Office 2007... :) In 2003 though, it is a button in the "Edit" tool bar (Menu -> View -> Toolbars)

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                          Dan Neely
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                          TY. The VBA editor didn't change except that it uses the same theme color as the rest of office in the menu/toolbar backgrounds. All the dividers/headers elsewhere are still win32 gray. The combination is almost WTF enough to make you think no one in MS cares. :rolleyes:

                          Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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                            TY. The VBA editor didn't change except that it uses the same theme color as the rest of office in the menu/toolbar backgrounds. All the dividers/headers elsewhere are still win32 gray. The combination is almost WTF enough to make you think no one in MS cares. :rolleyes:

                            Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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                            ChandraRam
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                            dan neely wrote:

                            no one in MS cares.

                            :) That's probably true, given that MS now recommends using VSTO instead of VBA.

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                              dan neely wrote:

                              no one in MS cares.

                              :) That's probably true, given that MS now recommends using VSTO instead of VBA.

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                              Dan Neely
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                              Not to mention office 2k8 (mac version of 2k7) doesn't support VBA at all. To make it perform well on early/mid 90's level hardware the VBA compiler/interpreters were written with large amounts of assembly code for speed so porting the PPC version to x86 wasn't an option, and the PC/mac versions ended up with very different back end connections for what were good reasons at the time; which meant they couldn't port the wintel version over either. Office for mac doesn't sell enough copies to have a very large team (it's fully funded on it's own sales), and the dev team estimated 2 years to rewrite the VBA engine.

                              Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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                              • C ChandraRam

                                dan neely wrote:

                                but any decent text editor will let you insert the ' via a global insert/replace.

                                AFAIK, the VBA editor within any MS Office application does have this feature...

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                                Paul Conrad
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                                Yes, it does have it. When I have to swallow my pride and do any VBA in Access, the search and replace is there and it is useful.

                                "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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                                • D Dan Neely

                                  IF so, could you please tell me where? I can't find it in excel 2k7.

                                  Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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                                  Paul Conrad
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                                  I cannot find it either. As you have mentioned in the other post, it must be a VSTO thing.

                                  "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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                                  • P PIEBALDconsult

                                    dan neely wrote:

                                    can it match on the newline char itself

                                    Not that I've found, I usually resort to opening the file in Word to do that. X|

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                                    Rob Grainger
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                                    I'd recommend Notepad++ a free replacement for Notepad, with all those regex goodies you've been missing

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                                      I cannot find it either. As you have mentioned in the other post, it must be a VSTO thing.

                                      "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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                                      tosch
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                                      It's there. Just checked in Word2000 and Word2007. You just have to show the Edit toolbar and it's right there.

                                      Tosch

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                                      • P PIEBALDconsult

                                        dan neely wrote:

                                        any decent text editor

                                        Like Notepad?

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                                        Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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                                        :omg: It even forgets CTRL+Z after two usage instances. I would say, WordPad should be safe and reliable though it nags us against saving in plain text formats.

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                                        • B Baconbutty

                                          I have no problems at all using GOTO in small sections of code. Beats all that complicated logic and program flow nonsense :)

                                          I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)

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                                          SilimSayo
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                                          There is a book called "Code Complete", that says that GoTo statements should always be avoided unless you're coding with Fortran

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