Simple Visual Basic function am I missing something?

[Mundekis]

I'm a VB Newbie
Windows 2000
Ver 7.2.031

All I want this to do is trim my string. It returns the Value but doesn't want to trim the string.


Let>name= Ron

VBSTART

Function Trimstr(name)

Trimstr = Trim("%name%")

End Function


VBEND


VBEval>Trimstr(name),answer
MessageModal>%answer%

[Bob Hansen]

Hello Mundekis....

Try this script.
I added a few more spaces at front and end of name and modified the message to make the result more visible.

VBSTART
VBEND

Let>name= Ron

VBEval>Trim("%name%"),answer

MessageModal>Original Start.....%name%.....Stop%CRLF%%CRLF%has been modified to:%CRLF%%CRLF%Start.....%answer%.....Stop

Since Trim is already a VB function you do not need to redefine it. Just run the VBSTART/VBEND at the beginning of the script. Then use VBEVAL with the normal VB syntax.

[Mundekis]

I'm now on my way to mastering VBScript. That takes care of lots of questions I've had.

[gavinb]

I have cust and pasted the code from Bob Hansen's sample and it does not work for me.

The return value is an empty string.

Any ideas?

Let>name= Ron

VBEval>Trim("%name%"),answer

MessageModal>Original Start.....%name%.....Stop%CRLF%%CRLF%has been modified to:%CRLF%%CRLF%Start.....%answer%.....Stop

[Bob Hansen]

Be sure when you Cut/Paste from the forum that you remove all trailing space characters. You can do this from the Macro Scheduler Editor. Click on Edit, Show All Chars and Remove Trailing Spaces.

[Lumumba]

Marcus,
please create a sticky note
Subject: How to copy and paste code from the forum.
Message body: Be sure when you Cut/Paste ...
Thx.
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Bob,

F3:: TrailingSpaces = Be sure when you Cut/Paste from the forum that you remove all trailing space characters. You can do this from the Macro Scheduler Editor. Click on Edit, Show All Chars and Remove Trailing Spaces.

ControlSend, %TrailingSpaces%
Return

FileExtension: ahk
Run it with its assigned program and press F3 to fire your C&P comment as often as you like.
btw: why not using the cmd/command comment as a second hotkey in the same script ?

[Marcus Tettmar]

The latest version of Macro Scheduler automatically removes trailing spaces and control chars from pasted code that has been copied from an HTML source (such as from Internet Explorer). So it really shouldn't be necessary to do this manually. In any case there is the Edit/Remove Trailing Spaces option that does it in one go.

[Bob Hansen]

Good suggestion Lumumba, maybe for someone else, but I rarely make hot keys.

And I don't have the problem, usually. You and I and other long time users are familiar with this. I usually include the caution in a forum message when I see a new user on the forum with some unknown problem, or try to prevent them from having the problem if I think they might be doing Cut/Paste from something I have submitted.

No big deal to clear them from the Edit menu when I have them. The big problem is knowing that you may need to do it, and do look for it. And as Marcus mentioned, the latest version corrects that, and now that I think about it, I honestly don't know that last time I actually had to do that myself.

Re a "sticky", that may be redundant. The following information is "whispered" just above the box I am typing into now:

If pasting script code, highlight it and press the 'Code' button to ensure it can be copied and pasted correctly

That was pointed out to me many years ago when I was complaining about Cut/Paste. I was told that by using "Code" the problem would not occur. But I can't be bothered to use Code in addition to Quote and prefer the appearance that I see with Quote tools.
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With all that said, I wonder if that caused/corrected the problem that was originally brought up a few messages ago?