My VB6 sucks - what is this? Array("hello")

[gvanto]

My VB really sucks, after googling, I still can't find what Array("UserCode") is in the following line:

vUsers = m_ObjUser.Retrieve(Array("UserCode"), -1)

Help much appreciated thanks!

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[Johan Hakkesteegt]

From you personal comment I glean that this is legacy code, so I won't ask why you're messing about with VB6 still. Without seeing all the relevant code, my guess is that this line breaks down as follows: vUsers is a string that should hold a user's name ? m_ObjUser is a custom object or class, that holds methods to get data about a user ? .Retrieve(TheUserCode, SomeIntegerDeterminingSomething) is a method that gets the user's name based on his code ? Array("UserCode") is an array that has a named index ("UserCode") which holds and returns the user's code. Although it seems a bit strange that that syntax would return anything. You could just put MsgBox(Array("UserCode")) just before the line you posted, and see what it says. The user code can end up in this array in any of a million ways. In other words just use the search function of your editor, and find out when / where this Array("UserCode") is created and/or gets populated.

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[Lost User]

This does not seem to be VB6 array syntax. 'Array' must be a user defined function that takes in a string as paramter and returns something (which is used by m_ObjUser.Retrieve). Hint: Right click on 'Array' and select 'Definition' from the context menu to see what it means.

[Dave Doknjas]

'Array' is a global method in VB6 which takes a parameter array and returns an array of 'Variant'. You can replace it by: New Object() {"hello"} or even better: New String() {"hello"}

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