Question

I’d like to think that I am decent at Visual Basic, but, while I was learning JavaScript the other day, I found something that seemed awesome and now I can’t figure out how to do it in Visual Basic.

In JavaScript, it looks like this:

var someValue = getThatValue()

It’s both calling and setting the value from the getThatValue() sub. What is the Visual Basic equivalent?

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I’ve tried doing this:

   Private Sub main()
       Dim value = getValue()
       ' Do something with value
   End Sub

   Private Sub getValue()
       return 3
   End Sub

That doesn’t seem to work. How can I get that to work?

Answer 1

Private Sub Main()
    Dim value = getValue()
    'do something with value
End Sub

Private Function getValue() As Integer
    Return 3
End Function