Text Concatenation Causes Error in Visual Basic Module

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In general, when you use spaces in Visual Basic code, these spaces do not affect the meaning of the code. However, if you enter the following code

   Text="is a"
   MsgBox("This "&Text&" Test")
				

and you leave out a space between the variable name "Text" and the ampersand (&), you will receive the error message: This error occurs because when an ampersand appears after a variable name, it is interpreted as a type-declaration character. In this example, the ampersand after the variable name "Text" indicates that Text is being declared as a Long data type. When the ampersand is interpreted this way, the rest of the line of code does not make sense. When you insert a space between the text variable and the ampersand, the ampersand character is recognized as the text concatenation operator and the error is eliminated.

You can also use the plus sign (+) for text concatenation as in the following example:

   Text="is a"
   MsgBox("This " + Text + " Test")
				

In the above example, spaces are added automatically.