Concatenating strings in VBA

Question

I\'m maintaining an application written in Microsoft Access with VBA.

I\'m glancing over my code and have just noticed I have subconsciously been concatenating strin

Answer 1

Some examples, from the VBA immediate window (the difference between the third and fourth is particularly vexing):

Print "5" & 6
56

Print 5 & 6
56

Print "5" + 6
 11 

Print "5" + "6"
56 

Print "Five" & 6
Five6

Print "Five" + 6 'Type mismatch

Print "5" & Null
5

Print "5" + Null
Null