2008/2/13, Johnny Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2008/2/11, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > > > > <snip> > > Hi Johnny and Ariel, > > Thanks to both of you. Your advice was extremely helpful and I've been > > able > > to carry on a fair bit until hitting the next obstacle. The contextual > > help > > available in the Macro editor really speeds things up and the methods > > that > > Johnny suggests are also the ones I use. > > Anyway, my next question: > > Am I correct in thinking that this Basic doesn't distinguish between > > name > > assignment and equality testing? It seems that if I right something > > like: > > Pet = "dog" it is ambiguous. It could mean, assign the value "dog" to > > the > > variable Pet or it could mean a statement that the variable Pet has the > > value "dog". In the latter case if could be found in an if statement > > like > > If Pet = "dog" then > > i = i+1 > > end If > > So i gets increased in value if the statement Pet = "dog" is true. > > Notice > > that "=" is used in 2 different ways above. > > > Yes, unlike C and C++ , = is used in both cases and the situation makes > the difference, kind of. > > Now I want to create a While > > loop of the form > > While Position = Instr(i, ProcessString, " ") > > > I GUESS (without knowing for sure) that you could make a function that > returns the value of your InStr statement AND gives that value to the > Position variable. > > Such as: > While MyInstr(i, ProcessString, " ") > blah blah blah > Wend > > function MyInstr(a As Integer, b As String, c As String) As Integer > Position=InStr(a,b,c) ' I am not sure if your Position variable is > available within a function however, but I think it is. > MyInstr=Position > end function >
Maybe this, if it works, also is a somewhat "ugly" solution… Johnny Rosenberg Or something like that, I don't know the exact syntax for InStr at the > moment. > > It appears this doesn't work. I wanted to evaluate the function InStr and > > assign its value to the variable Position. I can't do that in Basic, I > > guess. It looks like I have to repeat the Instr expression in the While > > statement and inside the loop like this: > > While Instr(i, ProcessString, " ") > > Position = Instr(i, ProcessString, " ") > > etc. etc. etc. > > Wend > > Is this the way I have to do it? It certainly looks ugly. > > > > Thanks for putting up with my slowness. I do have a lot of code that > > works > > the way I want thanks to your help (both of you). > > Cheers, > > Jonathan > > > > > > -- > > Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ > > Please do not send me copies of list mail. I read the lists. Thanks! > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >
