VBA String Literals - Escaping, non-printable characters and line-continuations Assigning long string literals
Example
The VBA editor only allows 1023 characters per line, but typically only the first 100-150 characters are visible without scrolling. If you need to assign long string literals, but you want to keep your code readable, you'll need to use line-continuations and concatenation to assign your string.
Debug.Print "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. " & _
"Integer hendrerit maximus arcu, ut elementum odio varius " & _
"nec. Integer ipsum enim, iaculis et egestas ac, condiment" & _
"um ut tellus."
'Output:
'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer hendrerit maximus arcu, ut elementum odio varius nec. Integer ipsum enim, iaculis et egestas ac, condimentum ut tellus.
VBA will let you use a limited number of line-continuations (the actual number varies by the length of each line within the continued-block), so if you have very long strings, you'll need to assign and re-assign with concatenation.
Dim loremIpsum As String
'Assign the first part of the string
loremIpsum = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. " & _
"Integer hendrerit maximus arcu, ut elementum odio varius "
'Re-assign with the previous value AND the next section of the string
loremIpsum = loremIpsum & _
"nec. Integer ipsum enim, iaculis et egestas ac, condiment" & _
"um ut tellus."
Debug.Print loremIpsum
'Output:
'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer hendrerit maximus arcu, ut elementum odio varius nec. Integer ipsum enim, iaculis et egestas ac, condimentum ut tellus.
