Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language has variable types for three different kinds of numbers: integer, floating-point and decimal. Integer variables range from a short 2-byte format to a ...

Now, does someone know why this is, and how to use a variable as the last argument there? I just can NOT make it accept any variable in place of a static number.

Case matters when moving from one language to another and, often, variable naming conflicts can be as simple as that. The very first programming language I used back in high school did not permit ...

In Visual Basic 14, with string interpolation, the code gets much simpler: I just put the variable name in the curly braces where I used to put the numerical place holders.