VBA: assign string character by character

Question

Most people ask how to get the characters from a string, which can be done by Mid(). I am trying to assign a string character by character in VBA code. The characters to be assigned depend on some calculated results.

I do not want to use string concatenation to form the string.

I have searched the web, but the posted solution, strName.Chars(i) (eg, at MS development network), is not recognized in my 2007 Access VBA. Thanks

Answer 1

You can use Mid to set values, too.

Sub showMidExample()

    Dim s As String
    s = "aaaaa"

    Dim i As Integer
    For i = 1 To Len(s)
        Mid(s, i) = "n"
        Debug.Print s

    Next i

End Sub

This prints out

naaaa
nnaaa
nnnaa
nnnna
nnnnn

Which is what you are looking for.

Answer 2

Since no working answer is posted. I assume that cannot be done in VBA and I have to use concatenation to form the string although that is cumbersome in my case.