I'm moving some code from an old language and rewriting it in .Net. I have
come across an odd situation where I will have to go in and rework a great
deal of code and I'm looking for a less complex and time consuming solution.
Here's the basic idea...
In the old language they are using a string constant such as:
Const c1FullAddr as String = "1 Colonial Drive Parma Ohio 21321"
Then they follow that up with another constant:
Const c1FaLen as String = c2FullAddr.length
In VB.Net you cannot do this. Is there a way to do this without having to
count the length of c1FullAddr and hard coding the value or without changing
it from a constant? I can ceratianly go through and count the lengths and
hardcode the values, or I could do through and change all of the "const" to
"dim" and it would work, but it would like to keep it as a constant in the
new version as well, if I can.
Of course the most obvious solution would be to simply make it a string
variable and not a string constant. I will do that if I need to, but I
thought there might be a trick here to get this to work as a constant, but I
certainly cannot see any way to make it work as a constant.
I think the real issue here is that if it is defined at runtime and not
design time, then it's not really a constant. So maybe there is no way to
do this in VB.Net, as a constant and just simply changing it to a string
variable is the correct approach.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be very much appreciated.
Best regards,
Jon
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