ERRORS in VBA FUnctions "InputBox" & "Select Case"

Mackeral

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Office Version
  1. 365
Platform
  1. Windows
These 2 VBA expressions do not function as it the are documented to, and I found that these had been recently implimented and broke code I've been running for years.

INPUTBOX

The docmentation says that if you hit the "Cancel" key that the routine returns a FALSE.
It now returns an Empty String.

The workaround is to use the SetStr function to test for the Escape Key having been used:
Code:
Test = SetStr(Arg) = 0
"Arg" being the string returned from the InputBox call.

SELECT CASE
The documentation refers to using "Is" or "Like" prior to haing a calculation as part of a "Case" statement. Not only that these don't work; now you can't have any calculations in the "Case" statement. It does not respond to a TRUE or FALSE argument, only what has been presented in the "Select Case" statement.
 

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But I have another Case statement in my code which does work:
Code:
Case Function_Returing_TRUE_or_FALSE(Arg)   <-- Statement B
So what is the difference between Statement A and Statement B?

The B statement won't work either if the function returns a True or Flase boolean.
 
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