Tools module

The module that holds the shared instances ToolsStr and ToolsStream. Its two public variables let a program write ToolsStr.TrimEx(...) and ToolsStream.LoadFileAsText(...) with no New, as it could when these two were modules of the package. The module has no procedures.

Debug.Print TypeName(ToolsStr)
Debug.Print TypeName(Tools.ToolsStr)
Debug.Print ToolsStr Is Tools.ToolsStr
Debug.Print TypeName(ToolsStream)
' Output:
' cToolsStr
' cToolsStr
' True
' cToolsStream

The two names can be written alone, as in the first line of the example, because the members of the module are found without the name of the module. The names TBMANLIB.Tools.ToolsStr and TBMANLIB.ToolsStr also work, and are needed when another package the project references has a member of the same name.

• Members
• See Also

Members

ToolsStr

The shared cToolsStr, the string functions.

Syntax: ToolsStr As cToolsStr

A field, declared Public ToolsStr As New cToolsStr, created the first time it is used. The class has no fields, so sharing the instance shares no state.

ToolsStream

The shared cToolsStream, the file reader and writer.

Syntax: ToolsStream As cToolsStream

A field, declared Public ToolsStream As New cToolsStream, created the first time it is used. The package’s own classes use this instance, cJson among them, so the open stream that the text functions leave behind is shared by the program and the package; see the warning on the page of cToolsStream.

See Also

• cToolsStr class – string functions
• cToolsStream class – whole files as text or bytes
• TBMAN module – the shared instances of the other classes
• TBMANLIB package – overview