Winsock api

[raylu]

In many scripting languages with no way to specify variable types, often, you need:

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somevar = 5
somevar += ""
to convert to a string.

Also, using "" would cause the string literal to be created and destroyed every one of those 50,000 times, wouldn't it?

[l2k-Shadow]

They can be if you use StrConv on them, but otherwise, no, they're not unicode.

Uhm.. VB6 strings are definitely stored in unicode, I've run into many problems when writing programs that use parts from different languages with VB6. But you can use this simple test too:

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Sub Main()
Dim s As String
    s = "Hello"
    MsgBox LenB(s)
End Sub


Ok, your grammar is lacking a bit there... So I'll try to answer what I think you asked. Yes, I paid $25 for Visual Basic 6 certification. Yes, it's pretty much a worthless feature nowadays (PRETTY MUCH doesn't mean totally useless). It's still there because there are uses for it. The fact is, it's there in (i think) all BASIC languages in some form. It's a handy time saver if you use it right.

Guess that VB6 certification was kinda shitty.

[brew]

I'm relatively certain (though not 100%) that Visual Basic 6 strings are not Unicode.

They are. Try this code...

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Private Sub Form_Load()
    MsgBox LenB("asdf")
End Sub


8? that must mean the characters must be two bytes each... Then the extra 6 for defining length and the scope of the string. What I'm trying to say is that vb6 strings are stored in unicode.

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oops.... shadow already posted this *hits his head off the wall* i should've read before i posted

Also, using "" would cause the string literal to be created and destroyed every one of those 50,000 times, wouldn't it?

This is correct, but acually it would be created and destroyed all 50,000 times. I'm unsure why, but it still seems to be faster then vbNullString even though using vbnullstring would indeed be the better choice. Perhaps a newer compiler for higher level languages might add some sort of catche for these type of operatons (of a commonly used string or value) and use that as a local variable instead.... just a guess

[MyndFyre]

Oh hey, what do you know?