Avoid "&" in string operations?

ChristianW
Valued Contributor

Hi all

How can I avoid the ampersand in string operations? I need to concatenate a pov for a calculation, but with all the ampersands, it looks complicated:

"A#" & accountName & ":F#" & flowName & ":UD2#" & ud2Name & ":UD4#" & ud4Name

 

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ChristianW
Valued Contributor

If you use the $" you can avoid all ampersands and ease the reading of calculation strings.

instead of

"A#" & accountName & ":F#" & flowName & ":UD2#" & ud2Name & ":UD4#" & ud4Name

you can simply write

$"A#{accountName}:F#{flowName}:UD2#{ud2Name}:UD4#{ud4Name}"

 

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ChristianW
Valued Contributor

If you use the $" you can avoid all ampersands and ease the reading of calculation strings.

instead of

"A#" & accountName & ":F#" & flowName & ":UD2#" & ud2Name & ":UD4#" & ud4Name

you can simply write

$"A#{accountName}:F#{flowName}:UD2#{ud2Name}:UD4#{ud4Name}"

 

You can also format the variables like this:

$"Don't mess with Debit and Credit the difference {deltaDC:N2} is larger than 100"

 

DeltaDC is a decimal and will be used in the N2 number format.

ericbegg
New Contributor

Note that the variable is bracketed by the curly braces {}, they are hard to discern on the web page.  If you copy and paste Christian's example you will see that the character is not a parentheses or square bracket. 

ChristianW
Valued Contributor

Thank you Erik, I changed the samples to code samples mode, maybe it is now easier to copy.

ericbegg
New Contributor

When you create a string, and require Carriage Returns be inserted for formatting purposes (e.g. creating an email) you can include .net newlines. 

 

Dim messageBody As String = $"Type - {SRType} {vbCrLf}Description - {SRDescription}"

 

vbCrLf or environment.newline both will work, and will create a carriage return into the message body. 

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