Question

Hopefully an easy question, but I’d quite like a technical answer to this!

What’s the difference between:

i = 4 

and

Set i = 4 

in VBA? I know that the latter will throw an error, but I don’t fully understand why.

Answer 1

set is used to assign a reference to an object. The C equivalent would be

 int i; int* ref_i;  i = 4; // Assigning a value (in VBA: i = 4) ref_i = &i; //assigning a reference (in VBA: set ref_i = i)