collection of user constants?

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bismuth - 20 Dec 2004 23:39 GMT

Does VB/A create a collection of user-defined constants for you?

If you had inside modEmployees:
public const NAME_1 as string = "Dan"
public const NAME_2 as string = "Bill"

You could refer to them with:
for iIndex = 1 to 2
debug.print modEmployees.Constants("NAME_" & iIndex)
next iIndex

I'm thinking this isn't an automatic thing, but it couldn't hurt to
ask.

Thanks for the help --

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Jezebel - 20 Dec 2004 23:49 GMT

No. Once the app is compiled the names aren't there at all, only pointers.
But in any case, this is missing the point. Constants are a shorthand for
literals. If you have a number of items and you need to iterate them, then
you shouldn't be using constants at all. And you sure as hell don't want to
hard-code employee names into an application ... apart from anything else,
you'll jinx their employment :)

> Does VB/A create a collection of user-defined constants for you?
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> Thanks for the help --

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Jeff Johnson [MVP: VB] - 21 Dec 2004 00:51 GMT

> Does VB/A create a collection of user-defined constants for you?

No. To put it simply (and a bit abstractly), constants are for design-time,
not run-time.

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Brian Schwartz - 23 Dec 2004 16:20 GMT

> public const NAME_1 as string = "Dan"
> public const NAME_2 as string = "Bill"
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> debug.print modEmployees.Constants("NAME_" & iIndex)
> next iIndex

What you're doing looks more like a job for an array.

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