Throwback Thursday: February 20, 2026
Take your VBA string-building skills to the next level in today's edition of Throwback Thursday.
With over a million words scattered across more than 1,500 articles on this blog, you've probably missed a few things here.
That’s why each week in "Throwback Thursday," we’ll revisit some standout posts. Expect a blend of my personal favorites, insightful articles from other great minds, and a touch of coding humor to keep things light.
Highlights from NoLongerSet.com
Come Together
Do you build strings in loops? Stop trimming the delimiter at the end of the loop. There’s a better way.
Mike Wolfe
Standard String Concatenation in VBA is Slow and Inefficient
A deep dive into the inner workings of string concatenation in VBA and why appending a single character to a long string can be so expensive.
Mike Wolfe
clsConcat: Blazing-Fast String Building Performance in VBA
You don’t need to understand how to pre-allocate a memory buffer in VBA to take advantage of this blazing-fast string builder class.
Mike Wolfe
Wisdom from Around the Web
Choosing Between & and + for String Concatenation in VBA
Explore the differences between & and + in VBA for string concatenation. Learn how to handle Null values effectively in your code and queries.
💥 Developer Helpers – 19 VBA String Functions That Every Developer Will Love!
If you work with VBA, you know the drill: strings are everywhere — during import, reporting, data preparation and text processing. And every time it’s: substring here, trim there, replace over there.
Marcus Dieterle
Developer Humor
Keyboard Mash
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