Looking to assign a value to a variable at the time of declaring it

Question

In VB you can both define and assign a value to a variable in one line.

Can you do this in Basic4Android?

VB code sample:

Dim strMyVariable As String = "Some text is in here"

Update: I tried this and got the following error:

NumberOfColumns As Int = 5  ' Number of columns.

Compiling code.                         Error
Error compiling program.
Error description: '=' expected.
Occurred on line: 13
NumberOfColumns As Int = 5' Number of columns.
Word: numberofcolumns

Update:

Compiling code.                         Error
Error compiling program.
Error description: Syntax error.
Occurred on line: 13
Dim NumberOfColumns As Int = 5 ' Number of columns.
Word: int

Hi Polynomial, Yes I did try it. I made an update to the post to show what I did. — Emad-ud-deen, Nov 13 '11 at 10:15
As soon as I put in the Dim statement I get a different error. The new error is shown in the update section of the post. — Emad-ud-deen, Nov 13 '11 at 12:29
My VB is a little rusty (I'm mainly dealing with C# these days) but I think it should be `As Integer` rather than `As Int`. — Polynomial, Nov 13 '11 at 13:41
@Polynomial, this isn't VB, it's Basic4Android. `Int` is correct. :) — Ken White, Nov 13 '11 at 18:36

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 13 '11 at 16:36

AFAICT, you can't.

If you really feel you need to do it on the same line, you can do it like this:

Dim NumberOfColumns As Int: NumberOfColumns = 5

The colon is defined in the user's guide (page 111) as the "separator for two statements on the same line".

Looking to assign a value to a variable at the time of declaring it

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