Trim and Trim$

[vchapran]

What is the difference between these functions? Trim returns variant, containing string, and Trim$ returns just string. What does it do in practical use?
Or there are some other differences?
Thank you.
Vlad

[Styler]

Trim$ uses less memory

[Cubbie]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but specifically if I remember correctly the Variant data type uses a minimum of 16 bytes plus 1 for each character, whereas the string data type uses 1 byte per character.

[slcotten]

Actually I think that Left uses 22 bytes plus string length and Left$ uses 10 bytes plus string length.

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/devprods/vs6/vbasic/vbenlr98/vagrpDataType.htm

[d.paulson]

Not only that it consumes less memory, but it does process faster (somewhere around 10% if I remember).

David Paulson