VB.Net and Cobol Integration Question

[Kevin]

We have a tool bar that was created in Cobol that we want to use in .Net.
The problem is that some of the parameters are listed like this in Cobol:
P-O-Data-String. So when we inherit from the toolbar, VB.net doesn't interpret
the '-' properly and it comes out like this: p(-O -Data -String). Anyone
know how to explain to vb.net that this is just a variable name and not some
kind of parsed subroutine?

Thanks!!!!

[Rune Bivrin]

"Kevin" <kreece@nccusa.com> wrote in news:3e5a6bc2$1@tnews.web.devx.com:

>
> We have a tool bar that was created in Cobol that we want to use in
> .Net. The problem is that some of the parameters are listed like this
> in Cobol: P-O-Data-String. So when we inherit from the toolbar, VB.net
> doesn't interpret the '-' properly and it comes out like this: p(-O
> -Data -String). Anyone know how to explain to vb.net that this is just
> a variable name and not some kind of parsed subroutine?
>
> Thanks!!!!

Try enlosing the name in square brackets: [P-O-Data-String]

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Rune Bivrin
- OOP since 1989
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- VB since 1991