Structure member name conflict rules

Question

Hello

When using Structures:

Public Structure Blah
   Public Name As String
   Public Home As String
End Structure

I have 2 strings: Name and Home, does it matter for the variable names inside the Structure to be unique?

ie if I have another string variable somewhere else with the same name of "Name or Home"?

Thanks,

Answer 1

Hi @StewartBW ,

If you declare variables with the same names (Name and Home) inside a method or another structure, they are considered different because they are in different scopes.

    Public Structure Blah
        Public Name As String
        Public Home As String
    End Structure
    Public Structure AnotherBlah
        Public Name As String
        Public Home As String
    End Structure
    Public Sub ExampleMethod()
        Dim Name As String = "LocalName"
        Dim Home As String = "LocalHome"

        Dim myBlah As Blah
        myBlah.Name = "BlahName"
        myBlah.Home = "BlahHome"

        Dim myAnotherBlah As AnotherBlah
        myAnotherBlah.Name = "AnotherBlahName"
        myAnotherBlah.Home = "AnotherBlahHome"

        Console.WriteLine(Name) ' Outputs: LocalName
        Console.WriteLine(Home) ' Outputs: LocalHome
        Console.WriteLine(myBlah.Name) ' Outputs: BlahName
        Console.WriteLine(myBlah.Home) ' Outputs: BlahHome
        Console.WriteLine(myAnotherBlah.Name) ' Outputs: AnotherBlahName
        Console.WriteLine(myAnotherBlah.Home) ' Outputs: AnotherBlahHome
    End Sub

Best Regards.

Jiachen Li

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Answer 2

If I understand correctly the answer is no. Try this out,

Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

    BlahTest()

End Sub

Public Structure Blah

    Public Name_ As String

    Public Home As String

End Structure

Public Name_ As String

Private Sub BlahTest()

    Dim Name_ As String

    Dim blah1 As New Blah

    blah1.Name_ = "BLAH1"

    Name_ = "local"

    Me.Name_ = "class"

End Sub