Question

Say I have a VBA function with an optional argument. Is there a way to tell, from within that function, whether the calling code has supplied the optional argument or not?

Public Function SomeFunction(optional argument as Integer = 0) As Integer

End Function

i.e. Is there a way to tell the difference between the following calls?

x = SomeFunction()
x = SomeFunction(0)

Answer 1

As far as I am aware it is not possible. If no argument is passed then the argument is initiliazed to its default value (0 in this case).

One way around this is to change the variable type to Variant and use the IsMissing function to check whether an argument is passed or not. Example:

Public Function SomeFunction(Optional argument As Variant) As Integer
    If IsMissing(argument) Then
        argument = 0
    Else
        // Code if argument not = 0....
    End If
End Function

The IsMissing function works only with the Variant data type as any other data type will always have a default initialization value.