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If you do any serious macro programming, there will eventually come a time when you want to swap the values in two strings. In some versions of BASIC, there are commands that handle this. VBA leaves us to our own devices, however. The following technique should do the trick for most people:
TempString = MyString1 MyString1 = MyString2 MyString2 = TempString
When completed, the values in MyString1 and MyString2 have been swapped, and TempString doesn't matter, since it was intended (by this technique) as a temporary variable anyway.
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2015-10-31 13:32:31
Rick Rothstein
You can also do the swap without using a temporary variable...
MyString2 = MyString2 & MyString1
MyString1 = Left(MyString2, Len(MyString2)-Len(MyString1))
MyString2 = Mid(MyString2, Len(MyString1) + 1)
Using the temporary variable should be the faster of the two methods, so if you are doing this in a large loop, use that method; however, for one or a small number of swaps, the time difference should be negligible.
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