Declare Const with a string (1 Viewer)

[Jayce72]

Hi

Im trying to declare a const

I have declared

Dim strPRX as string.
strPRX = "Test"

Im using:
Const spath = "C:\Users\Jim" & strPRX & ""

I Get:
spath = C:\Users\Jim\& strPRX &\

What Im trying to achieve is that spath = C:\Users\Jim\Test\

Any help please

 

[moke123]

try

Const spath = "C:\Users\Jim\" & strPRX & "\"

 

[CJ_London]

have you posted what you are doing correctly? VBA doesn't create characters out of thin air

there is no way

Im using:
Const spath = "C:\Users\Jim" & strPRX & ""

will add the additional \ characters

spath = C:\Users\Jim\& strPRX &\

 

[Jayce72]

try

Const spath = "C:\Users\Jim\" & strPRX & "\"

Didn't work - I get a compile error

 

[Jayce72]

have you posted what you are doing correctly? VBA doesn't create characters out of thin air

there is no way

Im using:
Const spath = "C:\Users\Jim" & strPRX & ""

will add the additional \ characters

spath = C:\Users\Jim\& strPRX &\

Hi - thanks - I've messed around with this so much I might have written it incorrectly.

I have a path that is always: C:\Users\Jim\
I then create a new folder called Test

I am then trying to get: const spath = "string etc"

to say : C:\Users\Jim\Test\

 

[CJ_London]

by its definition, a constant is a constant - you cannot assign a variable to it. So strPRX also needs to be a constant.

Alternatively, change spath from const to dim

 

[The_Doc_Man]

To amplify what CJ is saying, the only way to get spath to be combined from two strings is to define it originally that way as a constant, and constants must be defined in a declaration section, not in executable code.

If you change from Const to Dim, it becomes an ordinary variable for which values can be assigned dynamically.