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VB016

Plus used for string concatenation

Visual Basic 6
Warning
VB6

+ concatenates strings until an operand is a numeric Variant or Null — then it silently adds, or yields Null

+ concatenates strings until an operand is a numeric Variant or Null — then it silently adds, or yields Null.

Why this severity

+ concatenates strings until an operand is a numeric Variant or Null — then it silently adds, or yields Null.


Known false positives

none expected; numeric addition never touches a string literal.

Remediation example

msg = "Total: " & CStr(n)

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