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Using Structures
multiple variables within another variable. So if you had three variables —
FirstName, LastName, and Age — you could store them all within a structure,
such as
Structure Person
Dim FirstName as String
Dim LastName as String
Dim Age as Integer
End Structure
A structure is a user-defined data type. You can’t use a structure until you
declare a variable to represent that structure like this:
Dim Employees as Person
The preceding code creates an Employees variable that actually contains
the FirstName, LastName, and Age variables, as shown in Figure 1-1.
FirstName:
Figure 1-1:
A structure
can contain
multiple
variables.
LastName:
Age:
Storing data in separate
variables means keeping
track of each variable
FirstName:
LastName:
Age:
A structure groups
separate variables to
help you keep related
data together.
Storing data
To store data in a structure, you must
1. Identify the variable that represents that structure.
2. Identify the specific variable inside the structure to use.
So if you want to store the name Joe in the FirstName variable inside the
Employee variable, you could do the following:
Employee.FirstName = “Joe”