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Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic® 6 in 24 Hours
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Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic® 6 in 24 Hours

by Greg Perry, Sanjaya Hettihewa
April 1999
Beginner
480 pages
10h 33m
English
Sams
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Chapter 7. Making Decisions

You learned Visual Basic's mathematical operators in Hour 5, "Putting Code into Visual Basic," but Visual Basic supports several more operators, as you'll learn in this lesson. The operators described here are known as comparison operators because they compare data and determine the results of the comparison. By using comparison operators, you can write your programs so that they make certain runtime decisions based on the comparison results.

The highlights of this hour include

  • Which comparison operators to use

  • How to form If statements

  • When to use an Else branch

  • How Select Case statements streamline If...Else

Comparison Operators

All comparison operators produce true or false results. In other words, the comparison is either ...

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