Length of String Returning HEX??? Weird

[Joe]

Hi,
When I get the length of a string I expect to get an integer back. I
getting back &H6 for both intVar1 and intVar2 from the following code:

Dim strVar As String
Dim intVar1 As Integer
Dim intVar2 As Integer

strVar = "foobar"

intVar1 = strVar.Length
intVar2 = CStr(Len(strVar))

Could someone PLEASE tell me what I'm doing wrong???
Thanks

- Joe

 

[Brian Davis]

Check to see if you have "Hexadecimal display" turned on under
Tools->Options->Debugging->General.

Brian Davis
http://www.knowdotnet.com

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* (e-mail address removed) (Joe) scripsit:

When I get the length of a string I expect to get an integer back. I
getting back &H6 for both intVar1 and intVar2 from the following code:

Dim strVar As String
Dim intVar1 As Integer
Dim intVar2 As Integer

strVar = "foobar"

intVar1 = strVar.Length
intVar2 = CStr(Len(strVar))

Could someone PLEASE tell me what I'm doing wrong???

Where do ypu get this results? If you are talking about the IDE's
"Watch" window, simply right-click the value and select "Decimal format"
(translated from the German version of VS.NET) from the context menu.

'&H6' is only another "representation" of the variable's value. The
variable itself stores 6 in 'Integer' format, not as a string. So,
inside the application it doesn't make a difference whether hexadecimal
or decimal display is selected.

 

[Hal Rosser]

question about the code -
1. doesn't "Cstr" return a String data type ?
2. Isn't intVar2 an Integer ?
3. Are you assigning the String output of Cstr to intVar2 ?
4. do you have option strict off?
---what would happen if you removed "Cstr" from that last line of code ?