Hello folks,
I have a quick announcement. As you may know, I am doing a set of Excel & Dashboards Masterclasses in Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane. We had a fantastic session in Sydney (with 18 delegates). We are sold out in Melbourne & have 2 spots left in Brisbane. But we kept getting requests for more in Melbourne. So we have added an additional session in Melbourne. This is right after Queen’s birthday – on 12th & 13th of June. Please use below links to enroll for the masterclass if you are interested.
What will you learn in this Masterclass
This masterclass is a 2 day program aimed to make you awesome in Advanced Excel & Dashboards. We start the first day with introduction to Excel & formulas and quickly move to data analysis using formulas & pivot tables. We end the day by constructing our first dashboard. On second day, we talk more about charting & dashboard theory and best practices. Then, we learn more about Excel charts, adding interactivity to them etc. We close the second day by modifying our dashboard to make it even more awesome.
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What do people think about our Masterclass?
We asked the delegates of our Sydney masterclass to tell us how they liked it. Here is a short video with their reviews (4 min):
Everyone loved the 2 days and found that they can apply the ideas & techniques to work immediately. If you use Excel more than a few hours every week, I am sure you will say the same. So go ahead and sign-up for the upcoming session.
Thanks
Thank you so much for taking time to learn from us. If you are interested to learn these techniques but do not live in Melbourne or Brisbane, please consider joining my Excel + VBA online course. It has the same material & covers more. You can go thru the class at your own pace and learn from the comfort of your home (or office). Click here to learn more about it.
6 Responses to “Make VBA String Comparisons Case In-sensitive [Quick Tip]”
Another way to test if Target.Value equal a string constant without regard to letter casing is to use the StrCmp function...
If StrComp("yes", Target.Value, vbTextCompare) = 0 Then
' Do something
End If
That's a cool way to compare. i just converted my values to strings and used the above code to compare. worked nicely
Thanks!
In case that option just needs to be used for a single comparison, you could use
If InStr(1, "yes", Target.Value, vbTextCompare) Then
'do something
End If
as well.
Nice tip, thanks! I never even thought to think there might be an easier way.
Regarding Chronology of VB in general, the Option Compare pragma appears at the very beginning of VB, way before classes and objects arrive (with VB6 - around 2000).
Today StrComp() and InStr() function offers a more local way to compare, fully object, thus more consistent with object programming (even if VB is still interpreted).
My only question here is : "what if you want to binary compare locally with re-entering functions or concurrency (with events) ?". This will lead to a real nightmare and probably a big nasty mess to debug.
By the way, congrats for you Millions/month visits 🙂
This is nice article.
I used these examples to help my understanding. Even Instr is similar to Find but it can be case sensitive and also case insensitive.
Hope the examples below help.
Public Sub CaseSensitive2()
If InStr(1, "Look in this string", "look", vbBinaryCompare) = 0 Then
MsgBox "woops, no match"
Else
MsgBox "at least one match"
End If
End Sub
Public Sub CaseSensitive()
If InStr("Look in this string", "look") = 0 Then
MsgBox "woops, no match"
Else
MsgBox "at least one match"
End If
End Sub
Public Sub NotCaseSensitive()
'doing alot of case insensitive searching and whatnot, you can put Option Compare Text
If InStr(1, "Look in this string", "look", vbTextCompare) = 0 Then
MsgBox "woops, no match"
Else
MsgBox "at least one match"
End If
End Sub