Bug 57723 - Can't use VBA-compatible constant in Const variable
Summary: Can't use VBA-compatible constant in Const variable
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: BASIC (show other bugs)
Version:
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3.5.4 release
Hardware: All All
: medium major
Assignee: LeMoyne Castle
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Reported: 2012-11-30 07:52 UTC by NOKUBI Takatsugu
Modified: 2015-02-11 20:01 UTC (History)
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Description NOKUBI Takatsugu 2012-11-30 07:52:51 UTC
The follwoing is the example:

Option VBASupport 1
Option Explicit

Public Const MESSAGE As String "Foo" & vbNewLine & "Bar"

The code treated as a syntax error.

To replace chr(13) instead of vbNewLine also cases error.

Can I use CR/CRLF code with constant string?
Comment 1 LeMoyne Castle 2012-12-22 03:42:02 UTC
Confirmed in 3.6.3 on Ubuntu 10.04...


' NOGO>>> Const NEWLINE As String = Chr(13)
Const NEWLINE As String = "  ouch  "

' NOGO>>> Public Const MESSAGE As String = "Foo " & Chr(10) & Chr(13) & " Bar"
' NOGO>>> Public Const MESSAGE As String = "Foo " & VbCrLf & " Bar"
' NOGO>>> Public Const MESSAGE As String = "Foo " & NEWLINE & " Bar"
Public Const MESSAGE As String = "Foo " & " Bar"

It seems that one can use the & to concatenate, but everything to the right of = must be string literal.  I think this is working as designed.  However, it is not an unreasonable enhancement to be able to use named constants as well.  

Want to check VBA action and VBA/LibO BASIC documentation.  Might be a dropout in the VBA compatibility.
Comment 2 QA Administrators 2015-01-05 17:52:32 UTC
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Comment 3 Buovjaga 2015-01-29 10:11:21 UTC
We need to restest this, but reproduction steps are not clear enough. Setting to NEEDINFO.
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