Public Structure

[zulander]

Hi i have a Public Structure:

Public Structure MeterAccountName
Dim Meter As String
Dim Account_No As String
Dim xName As String
End Structure

is their a way to clear a structure without having to do the
fallowing:

MeterAccountName.Meter =""
MeterAccountName.Account =""
MeterAccountName.xName =""
Thank you

[zulander]

Will this do :
MeterAccountName=nothing

zu******@gmail.com wrote:

Hi i have a Public Structure:

Public Structure MeterAccountName
Dim Meter As String
Dim Account_No As String
Dim xName As String
End Structure

is their a way to clear a structure without having to do the
fallowing:

MeterAccountName.Meter =""
MeterAccountName.Account =""
MeterAccountName.xName =""
Thank you

[Samuel Shulman]

Perhaps you can create a method to do that or assign a new variable

ob = new MeterAccountName

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Hi i have a Public Structure:

Public Structure MeterAccountName
Dim Meter As String
Dim Account_No As String
Dim xName As String
End Structure

is their a way to clear a structure without having to do the
fallowing:

MeterAccountName.Meter =""
MeterAccountName.Account =""
MeterAccountName.xName =""
Thank you

[Samuel Shulman]

no, that will mean that the object doesn't point to any area in the memory
an you will not be able to use this object until you assign it a New
MeterAccountName

view my other posting


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Will this do :
MeterAccountName=nothing

zu******@gmail.com wrote:

>Hi i have a Public Structure:

Public Structure MeterAccountName
Dim Meter As String
Dim Account_No As String
Dim xName As String
End Structure

is their a way to clear a structure without having to do the
fallowing:

MeterAccountName.Meter =""
MeterAccountName.Account =""
MeterAccountName.xName =""
Thank you

[Patrice]

Actually both are working in VB 2005, but I'm not a big fan of using Nothing
as this is really not the same semantic than for objects. I prefer New but
I'm not yet totally convinced as this is not really something "new".

The third option which I tried would be to create a shared readonly "Empty"
property that returns an empty structure. This way you would just write :

MyStruct=MeterAccountName.Empty

(I thought also about a clear method but i could be easy to add a field and
forgot to reset it).

--
Patrice

"Samuel Shulman" <sa************@ntlworld.coma écrit dans le message de
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Perhaps you can create a method to do that or assign a new variable

ob = new MeterAccountName

<zu******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:11*********************@s13g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...

>Hi i have a Public Structure:

Public Structure MeterAccountName
Dim Meter As String
Dim Account_No As String
Dim xName As String
End Structure

is their a way to clear a structure without having to do the
fallowing:

MeterAccountName.Meter =""
MeterAccountName.Account =""
MeterAccountName.xName =""
Thank you

[Claes Bergefall]

Actually, setting it to Nothing will work in this case (much to my
surprise!) since it's a structure and not a class. You will only get away
with it in VB though. Trying the same thing in C# will give you a compiler
error ("Cannot convert null to '...' because it is a value type")

I would still recommend a separate method for it (like Clear or something).

/claes

"Samuel Shulman" <sa************@ntlworld.comwrote in message
news:ud**************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

no, that will mean that the object doesn't point to any area in the memory
an you will not be able to use this object until you assign it a New
MeterAccountName

view my other posting


<zu******@gmail.comwrote in message
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>Will this do :
MeterAccountName=nothing

zu******@gmail.com wrote:

>>Hi i have a Public Structure:

Public Structure MeterAccountName
Dim Meter As String
Dim Account_No As String
Dim xName As String
End Structure

is their a way to clear a structure without having to do the
fallowing:

MeterAccountName.Meter =""
MeterAccountName.Account =""
MeterAccountName.xName =""
Thank you

[Stanimir Stoyanov]

"Claes Bergefall" wrote:

surprise!) since it's a structure and not a class. You will only get away
with it in VB though. Trying the same thing in C# will give you a compiler
error ("Cannot convert null to '...' because it is a value type")

In fact, this method works in C#, too, but only in the initial definition of
the variable. You do not have to explicitely assign null to it, though:

MyStruct msInst;
msInst.myField = value;
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Best regards,

Stanimir Stoyanov
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