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VBA - Variables
Variable is a named memory location used to hold a value that can be changed during
the script execution. Following are the basic rules for naming a variable.

You must use a letter as the first character.

You can't use a space, period (.), exclamation mark (!), or the characters @, &, $,
# in the name.

Name can't exceed 255 characters in length.

You cannot use Visual Basic reserved keywords as variable name.

Syntax

In VBA, you need to declare the variables before using them.

Dim <<variable_name>> As <<variable_type>>

Data Types
There are many VBA data types, which can be divided into two main categories, namely
numeric and non-numeric data types.

Numeric Data Types


Following table displays the numeric data types and the allowed range of values.

Type Range of Values

Byte 0 to 255

Integer -32,768 to 32,767

Long -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,648

-3.402823E+38 to -1.401298E-45 for negative values


Single
1.401298E-45 to 3.402823E+38 for positive values.

-1.79769313486232e+308 to -4.94065645841247E-324 for negative values


Double
4.94065645841247E-324 to 1.79769313486232e+308 for positive values.

Currency -922,337,203,685,477.5808 to 922,337,203,685,477.5807

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+/- 79,228,162,514,264,337,593,543,950,335 if no decimal is use


Decimal
+/- 7.9228162514264337593543950335 (28 decimal places).

Non-Numeric Data Types


Following table displays the non-numeric data types and the allowed range of values.

Type Range of Values

String (fixed length) 1 to 65,400 characters

String (variable length) 0 to 2 billion characters

Date January 1, 100 to December 31, 9999

Boolean True or False

Object Any embedded object

Variant (numeric) Any value as large as double

Variant (text) Same as variable-length string

Example

Let us create a button and name it as 'Variables_demo' to demonstrate the use of


variables.

Private Sub say_helloworld_Click()


Dim password As String

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password = "Admin#1"

Dim num As Integer


num = 1234

Dim BirthDay As Date


BirthDay = DateValue("30 / 10 / 2020")

MsgBox "Passowrd is " & password & Chr(10) & "Value of num is " &
num & Chr(10) & "Value of Birthday is " & BirthDay
End Sub

Output

Upon executing the script, the output will be as shown in the following screenshot.

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