Am I the only one flabbergasted here?

Dim sText As String

sText = "Hello I am John"
Mid$(sText, 12, 4) = "Mark"
MsgBox sText

Result is "Hello I am Mark"

(VB6)

Please tell me you are as surprised about this as I am.
Makes me wonder how... My IDE colors Mid$ blue when I put it like this, so maybe it recognised it as a pointer this way?

Best Regards,
Richard

When Mid is on the left-side of the equal sign it is actually a built-in visual basic statement rather than a function call like when it is on the right-hand-side...

Gotta luv VB's hidden quirks and sometimes non-standard statements


: Am I the only one flabbergasted here?
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: Dim sText As String
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: sText = "Hello I am John"
: Mid$(sText, 12, 4) = "Mark"
: MsgBox sText
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: Result is "Hello I am Mark"
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: (VB6)
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: Please tell me you are as surprised about this as I am.
: Makes me wonder how... My IDE colors Mid$ blue when I put it like this, so maybe it recognised it as a pointer this way?
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: Best Regards,
: Richard
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: Gotta luv VB's hidden quirks and sometimes non-standard statements
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I love 'm!

Just wish I had known this earlier :( A little hint in the book I learned VB from would've been nice

Best Regards,
Richard

: : Gotta luv VB's hidden quirks and sometimes non-standard statements
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: I love 'm!
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: Just wish I had known this earlier :( A little hint in the book I learned VB from would've been nice
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: Best Regards,
: Richard
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The on-line help [see also] lists both a Mid func. and a Mid statement, as if its an overloaded operator.

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: The on-line help [see also] lists both a Mid func. and a Mid statement, as if its an overloaded operator.
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Yeah I found that a couple of minutes after I made the post :)
I though it might have something to do with secret hidden Variant pointers to strings etc etc :)
But too bad it was just a hard-coded statement.

And I was getting all excited about having pointers ^^

Best Regards,
Richard

: But too bad it was just a hard-coded statement.
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I remember it from my VB days, though I'm not sure how I discovered it. I think it maybe worked for Left$ and Right$ too. It's certainly an odd construct - reminds we in part of Perl's lvalue subroutines (basically you assign to a sub call, which magically is returning something assignable, or something weird...)

: And I was getting all excited about having pointers ^^
Hehe, not much has changed since I used to post here years ago.

Jonathan

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: I remember it from my VB days, though I'm not sure how I discovered it. I think it maybe worked for Left$ and Right$ too. It's certainly an odd construct - reminds we in part of Perl's lvalue subroutines (basically you assign to a sub call, which magically is returning something assignable, or something weird...)
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Got excited about tht too :) But no, Left and Right are only ever Left and Right.

: Hehe, not much has changed since I used to post here years ago.
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Wt?! :P
Best Regards,
Richard