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Coerce To Long Function
Coerce Make Class

Public Function CoerceToLong( _
    ByVal vString As Variant _
    ) As Variant

"Coerce String To Long"
Return the Long (integer) value whose in-memory representation is the same as the first four characters in string vString.
Same as the CVL function in earlier versions of Microsoft Basic.
Inverse of the MakeLong (MKL) function.

Examples: 
    CoerceToLong(String$(4, 0)) = 0&
    CoerceToLong(Chr$(1) + Chr$(0) + Chr$(0) + Chr$(0)) = 1&
    CoerceToLong(Chr$(0) + Chr$(1) + Chr$(0) + Chr$(0)) = 256&
    CoerceToLong(String$(4, 255)) = -1&
    CoerceToLong(String$(4, 254)) = -16843010&
    IsNull(CoerceToLong(Null)) = True
See also: 
    CoerceToLongFast Function
    MakeLong Function
    CoerceToVarType Function
    CoerceToInteger Function
vString: The string whose first four characters are to be interpreted as a Long value. Function returns Null if vString is Null or cannot be fixed up to a String.

Note: Function generates the Visual Basic Error "Illegal Function Call" if vString is less than 4 characters long (the size of a Long value).
Note: If vString is more than four characters long, the leftmost four characters are coerced to a Long value.

Note: This function first converts the string from Unicode to the default code page of the system.
v1.3 Change: Removed 16-bit support from this function.

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