My InStr keeps telling me its mismatched

问题

 englishReasonsToGoToSecondFloor = "test" & ";" & "exam & pay" & ";" & " possible fake"

So my values may contain a & or (space) or just a single word. Each item is separated by a ";"

so the final list will look like "test;exam & pay;possible fake"

When the user selects an item from the Listbox, I want to quickly compare the selection with the words in the variable

rowValue = Trim(listboxTest.Column(1))
englishResult = InStr(rowValue, englishReasonsToGoToSecondFloor, CompareMethod.Text)

I can mouse over the rowValue and I see there is a value.

I've also tried with

englishResult = InStr(rowValue, englishReasonsToGoToSecondFloor, vbTextCompare)

Error message is "Run-time error '13'

回答1:

Check the help for InStr(). Or here .

 InStr ([start, ] string1, string2 [, compare ] )

The start argument is required if compare is specified.

So leave out the compare argument, or supply start.

And you have the string arguments mixed up (I need to remind myself of the correct order pretty often too).

string1 - Required. String expression being searched.
string2 - Required. String expression sought.

So you want

englishResult = InStr(1, englishReasonsToGoToSecondFloor, rowValue, vbTextCompare)

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38353529/my-instr-keeps-telling-me-its-mismatched