Concatenating strings in VBA

Question

I\'m maintaining an application written in Microsoft Access with VBA.

I\'m glancing over my code and have just noticed I have subconsciously been concatenating strin

Answer 1

The ampersand is explicitly a string operation, while the plus is overloaded:

Dim num1 As Integer
num1 = RandomNumberBetween(1, 9)

Dim num2 As Integer
num2 = RandomNumberBetween(1, 9)

Dim randomAge As String 'trying to get a random age between 11 and 99

' works
randomDate = "Your age is " & num1 & num2 

'broken
randomDate = "Your age is " + num1 + num2 

When used with numbers the plus sign will add.