Here I go again........... can someone tell me the difference between a string variable and a string literal?

A string variable is a variable which holds a string. For instance,

dim s as String ' s is a string variable

A string literal is something in the code itself which the interpreter or compiler evaluates to a string. For instance,

s = "ABCDEFG" ' "ABCDEFG" is the string literal, but s is the string variable

In general, a literal is something (literal=written) in the code. For instance, in (x = 6.023), 6.023 is a numeric literal.

- taubz

If your learning strings you should learn how to use char pointers as well. Strings (in C++) can be declared 3 different ways (that I know of). One is a character array, like this: char name[3] = {'B','o','b'}; Two is to use the string class in string.h like this: String name = "Bob"; and the third is to use a pointer like this: char* name = "Bob";

The subject says C++, and you still use Basic? :-)

ahhhhhhh... what the heck... thanx

Oh that's what you mean by "dim s"

/me hides behind some .NET

How is that .NET?

I didn't mean for my comment to be taken so literally. :) (But it could be VB.NET.)