Type-declaration character not allowed

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While using type-declaration characters is valid in Visual Basic, some data types (including Byte, Boolean, Date, Object, and Variant) have no associated type-declaration characters. This error has the following causes and solutions:

  • You tried to use a type-declaration character in the declaration of a variable that uses the As clause, for example, with Dim, Static, Public, and so on.

    Either remove the type-declaration character or remove the As clause.

  • You tried to use a type-declaration character in reference to a variable that was implicitly declared without a type-declaration character:

        MyVar = 20    ' Implicit declaration. 
    MyVar% = 25   ' Generates an error. 

      Dim MyStr$  
  MyStr = "Because it was explicitly declared, the $ is optional."

    Either remove the type-declaration character or redeclare the original variable.

    Note

    If an explicit variable declaration contains a type-declaration character, inclusion of the character is optional in later references.

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