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Argument 'Length' must be greater or equal to zero

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#1

Argument ‘Length’ must be greater or equal to zero.

If your seeing this in place of all my posts on MLS, your not seeing things, I had a major “Critical Path Error” FUBAR when I was updating my profile today, all I can do is wait till someone figures out what went south, its frustrating but thats all I can do, my MLS webstorage is functioning fine, go figure, Vic

#2

That’s one of those great error messages that tells you absolutely nothing.

It’s not clear to me how an argument length could EVER be less than zero, so I wonder what they were really trying to signify with this message.

It does make for an interesting effect over there.

#3

Even funnier, it looks like it posts that message as many times as you’ve replied to a topic…but all at the top of the topic. Very strange.

Next time, make sure your argument length is not negative. :wink:

#4
Victor Smith said:
Argument 'Length' must be greater or equal to zero.

If your seeing this in place of all my posts on MLS, your not seeing things, I had a major “Critical Path Error” FUBAR when I was updating my profile today, all I can do is wait till someone figures out what went south, its frustrating but thats all I can do, my MLS webstorage is functioning fine, go figure, Vic


Interesting. Looks like Null (i.e., undefined) is being passed to a LEN() function.

LEN() is a programming construct that returns the length of a character string. For example, LEN(“Victor”) = 6.

Let’s create two variables, one to hold your name, one to hold the length of your name. Let’s call them x and y.

Dim x As Variant
Dim y As Long

x = “Victor”
y = LEN(x)

Print y
6

Note how the example chooses to define x as Variant. In at least one programming language, this allows x to be Null, which allows this to happen:

Dim x As Variant
Dim y As Long

x = Null
y = LEN(x)

We never get to see the value of y, because an error will be generated. LEN() can’t handle a Null value.

Looks like you have been NULLed, Vic. They will come to take you away shortly. Bye-bye!!!

#5

Null and void eh?

A bit like me I suppose.

#6

Well did I win the argument…??? Class A???

#7

Yes Cale you did, unfortunatly the post that showed the other pics has done into the e-netherworld along with it appears EVERY SINGLE POST I have EVER made there on the new forum. :frowning:

The really wierd thing is that I tried to add a post, it did not register on the forum yet it DID show on the home page ‘recent forum topics’ highlight links. Strange!

Class A pics
http://www.largescalecentral.com/LSCForums/viewtopic.php?id=9386

#8

Huh?
Wuhinheck you’all posting about?

#9
Victor Smith said:
Yes Cale you did, unfortunatly the post that showed the other pics has done into the e-netherworld along with it appears EVERY SINGLE POST I have EVER made there on the new forum. :(

The really wierd thing is that I tried to add a post, it did not register on the forum yet it DID show on the home page ‘recent forum topics’ highlight links. Strange!


dang that sux! had a similar experience before (lost files), that’s one of the reasons I moved it all over here!

now, if you got something to post, send it to my email and I’ll put it up for you!

cale

#10

Thanks Cale, I asked Brian to repost this on the MLS website questions forum just in case my e-mails are going nowhere, but I dont think he’s read my email yet. I only got one reply from the webmaster so far, so I’m in complete limbo at the moment.

#11

Back up and running, but edited and reposted another picture and got the same prompt in the reply box, so its something to do with the image software. Thats what I was doing in my profile when the big kaboom took place. FYI

#12

I’ve always thought it funny we use the term “argument” in programs. :smiley:

#13

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