Difference between Dim I as ineteger and Dim I as New Integer

4 May 2007 12:15 PM

vighnesh

Hi Folks

Please let me know the difference between the following statements.

Dim i as Integer
Dim i as New Ineger

As I tested both declares a variable 'i' of type integer intialized to value
'0'.
Please let me know the significance of 'New' keyword in the declaration. I
suppose 'New' is used to create an object of a class, but here 'Integer' is
not a Reference Type. The same with the following statements.

Dim s as String
Dim s as New String("s",1)

Thanking you in advance.

Regards
Vighneswar

4 May 2007 1:58 PM

Michel Posseth [MCP]

There is no difference

except of typing length and ambigity to other .Net languages ( mather of
personal prefernce i would call this )

regards

Michel Posseth

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>
> Hi Folks
>
> Please let me know the difference between the following statements.
>
> Dim i as Integer
> Dim i as New Ineger
>
> As I tested both declares a variable 'i' of type integer intialized to
> value '0'.
> Please let me know the significance of 'New' keyword in the declaration.
> I suppose 'New' is used to create an object of a class, but here 'Integer'
> is not a Reference Type. The same with the following statements.
>
> Dim s as String
> Dim s as New String("s",1)
>
> Thanking you in advance.
>
> Regards
> Vighneswar
>
>

5 May 2007 4:37 PM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

"vighnesh" <vighn***@nannacomputers.com> schrieb:
> Please let me know the difference between the following statements.
>
> Dim i as Integer
> Dim i as New Ineger
>
> As I tested both declares a variable 'i' of type integer intialized to
> value '0'.

The two lines are semantically equivalent.

> Dim s as String
> Dim s as New String("s",1)

These lines are semantically different as 'String' is a reference type. The
first variable will be initialized to 'Nothing', the second will have the
value "s".

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