The errors involve the statement I made for what to say after the command button is clicked. Here is the sentence I wrote:

'create message
       message = "You have entered " firstName & " " & lastName & " as a new customer." vbCR
       firstName & "'s address is: " & streetAddress & "," & city & "," & state & "," & zipCode & "."

THE TWO indented areas indicate the start of the lines {meaning that in the program it only takes up two lines}

the & sign {after firstName} which connects the statement of variables and string literals together has an error that reads "Method arguments must be enclosed in parentheses"

Then for the same sign, there is another error "Expression is expected."

for the string literal 'firstName' the error reads "Expression is not a method."

And the last error reads "End of statement expected" for the first line of my sentence.

How do I fix these errors? I wrote the sentence out how I was instructed to by my professor, did I make an error in writing it? {She didn't give the exact sentence to write, just how to write it.}

HELP!

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You need an & right before the variable firstname

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It got rid of the errors for the & sign but now says "syntax error"

Thats the correct way to do it.

btw, make sure thats all on 1 line.

Post edited at 8:24 pm on Feb. 14, 2008 by Ethryx

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Code:

message = "You have entered " & firstName & " " & lastName & " as a new customer." & vbCrLf & firstName & "'s address is: " & streetAddress & "," & city & "," & state & "," & zipCode & "."

Thats the correct way to do it.

btw, make sure thats all on 1 line.

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Make sure the whole sentence is on line one? Shouldn't you write it on two lines?

Thanks, the code you pasted did get rid of the errors, but the & sign in front of firstName on the second line still says syntax error.

Also, may I ask what version of the language you are doing this in? Is this in .NET?

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Post edited at 8:41 pm on Feb. 14, 2008 by SilverDragon1Wings

Code:

Dim Message As String, firstName As String, lastName As String, streetAddress As String, city As String, state As String, zipCode As String        firstName = "Joe"        lastName = "Smith"        streetAddress = "123 Popcorn Street"        city = "Bigville"        state = "NY"        zipCode = "11777"        Message = "You have entered " & firstName & " " & lastName & " as a new customer." & vbCrLf & firstName & "'s address is: " & streetAddress & "," & city & "," & state & "," & zipCode & "."        MsgBox(Message)

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