Question

I am trying to compare two strings in VB but compareTo, compare, equals etc all give compile errors.

    If String.Compare(string_one, string_two) = 0 Then
        '...do stuff
    End If
    If String.Equals(string_one, string_two) Then
        '...do stuff
    End If

Now both lines give me the error,

Compile error:

Expected: (

and it highlights the dot after String, i.e.

String.(whatever)
______↑__________

Do I need to include something, I normally program C, Java and C# so I am not very familiar with VB

Now I am doing this in a very crappy program that uses Microsoft Visual Basic 6.5 is it that these functions just simply do not exist?

Answer 1

VB6 just uses the = operator:

If string_one = string_two Then
    ''# Do Stuff
End If

For that matter you do it that way in VB.Net as well, though vb.net also allows the .Equals() function in this form:

If string_one.Equals(string_two) Then
    ''# Do Stuff
End If