Declare problem

[nervous]

I would like declare a string constant... this string is composed by many different substrings.. Actually I use this method:

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CONST Command as string [Cmd]="ABCDEFGHI"

But is more nice for me define in this way :

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CONST Command as string [Cmd]="AB" 
                                                    "CD"
                                                     "EF"
                                                     "GH"
                                                     "IL"

. 

Can I do something like that ?
Thanks in advance.

[norbie]

Hi nervous,
I don't think this is going to compile as it is.

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CONST Command as string [Cmd]="ABCDEFGHI" 

The [Cmd] is a variable and will probably not pass the syntax check.

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CONST Command as string [10]="ABCDEFGHI" 

Above will create a constant one dimensional array with 9 elements.

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Const cmd as String[9] = "AB" +
"CD" + 
"EF" +
"IL"

This will work too, but is in general the same as before, since it becomes a string with 8 elements again.

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' To select the desired Character pair
Dim Command as String
command = cmd(0) + cmd(1) 
'command now has "AB" in String
command = cmd(2) + cmd(3)
'command now has "CD" in String
'Don't know if this is what you are looking for

There is ways to define an array as I think you want, however this would have to be done in a Multi dimensional array.

[nervous]

Hi Norbie

I don't think this is going to compile as it is.

This will work too, but is in general the same as before, since it becomes a string with 8 elements again.

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' To select the desired Character pair
Dim Command as String
command = cmd(0) + cmd(1) 
'command now has "AB" in String
command = cmd(2) + cmd(3)
'command now has "CD" in String
'Don't know if this is what you are looking for

There is ways to define an array as I think you want, however this would have to be done in a Multi dimensional array.

Yes, of course... is what finally I've done.. but for the clearness of the code that don't help... Anyway, waiting for the multi dimension array, we have to solve in some way :)

Thanks again for your help.