Constant expression required

  • Article

A constant must be initialized. This error has the following causes and solutions:

  • You tried to initialize a constant with a variable, an instance of a user-defined type, an object, or the return value of a function call.

    Initialize constants with literals, previously declared constants, or literals and constants joined by operators (except the Is logical operator).

  • array

    To declare a dynamic array within a procedure, declare the array with ReDim and specify the number of elements with a variable.

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