VBScript in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

Name

Private Statement

Syntax

Private varname[([subscripts])] [, varname[([subscripts])] . . .

varname

Use: Required

Variant Type: Any

The name of the variable, following Visual Basic naming conventions.

subscripts

Use: Optional

Variant Type: Integer or Long

Denotes varname as an array and optionally specifies the number and extent of array dimensions.

Description

Used in a script or in a class to declare a private variable and allocate the relevant storage space in memory.

Rules at a Glance

• A Private variable’s visibility is limited to the script in which it’s created for global variables and to the class in which it is declared for class-level variables. Elsewhere, the Private keyword generates an error.

• varname follows standard VB naming conventions. It must begin with an alphabetic character, can’t contain embedded periods or spaces, can’t be the same as a VBScript reserved word, must be shorter than 255 characters, and must be unique within its scope.

• You can override standard variable naming conventions by placing your variable name in brackets. This allows you to use reserved words or illegal characters in variable names. For example:

  Private [me]
  Private [1Var]
  Private [2-Var]

• The subscripts argument has the following syntax:

                          upperbound [,upperbound]...

  For example:

  Private strNames(10)

  defines an array of 11 elements (an array whose lower bound is 0 and whose upper bound is 10). Similarly:

  Private lngPrices(10, 10)

  defines a two-dimensional array of eleven elements in each dimension.

• Using the ...