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Re: Variable type questions

From	"Roger Roesler" <worm.composter@nospam.arcornews.de>
Newsgroups	microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript
Subject	Re: Variable type questions
Date	2018-04-29 19:54 +0200
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JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> typed:

>> The result is somewhat unexpected. HTH
>
> You shouldn't apply bitwise operator on variable types because
> variable type values mostly are not bit masks (except vbArray).
>
> In that code, vbError is 10, and vbObject is 9. AND-ing them would
> result to 8, where if it's converted to boolean, it will be true.
> Because numbers which isn't zero, will always evaluate to true if
> it's converted to boolean.
>
> So, instead of:
>
>  CBool(VarType(Err) And vbError)
>
> It should be:
>
>  ((VarType(Err) And &HFFF) = vbError)

Ok, thanks!

-- 
ЯR

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    Re: Variable type questions JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2018-04-28 02:56 +0700
  Re: Variable type questions "Roger Roesler" <worm.composter@nospam.arcornews.de> - 2018-04-29 11:35 +0200
    Re: Variable type questions JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2018-04-29 22:51 +0700
      Re: Variable type questions "Roger Roesler" <worm.composter@nospam.arcornews.de> - 2018-04-29 19:54 +0200

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