Hi,
  The bold line is compound interest and the text5.text is an amount of money and needs to be times by 1.06 ^ 15 meaning 6% interest over a period of 15 years, how can it be done seeing as the line I put doesn't work!

        If Text5.Text > 500000 Then
          Text2.Text = Text5.Text * 1.03 ^ 30
             Text3.Text = Text5.Text * 0.03 ^ 30
        End If

also it would be nice to know how to do:
more then
less then
more then or equal
less then or equal

during if..then statements

cheers to anyone who can help


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Apocolypse2005
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Apocolypse2005, I'm a programmer - of sorts.

There are financial functions made available by vb6, such as Rate, FV (future value), IPmt, PV (present value), SLN, and others. You might check any of these out.

And the more/less/or equal:
more than: >
less than: <
more or equal: >=
less or equal <=

If 1 > 2 then
' Do something
elseif 3 <= 2 then
' Do something else
else
' You'll always end up here..
end if

note that you will want to use paranethesis to denote the precedence in complex calculations.


Woody Z
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You have to convert the Text value into a number before doing any math, that is:

Text2.Text = CDbl(Text5.Text) * (1.03 ^ 3)

(CDbl automatically converts the string into a number using the current locale settings for decimal points)

Marco

This isn't strictly true, since VB6 coerces datatypes. Doing math on a string in all but a few cases will automatically cast the string to the appropriate numeric data type. However, it is important to validate the value in the string is actually a number before attempting to use it as a number.

Woody Z
http://www.learntoprogramnow.com

"more then" means either "more at that time" ("If he pays me tomorrow, I'll have more then than I do now.") or is synonymous with "Alright then: More!" ("I'm hungry, so give me more then!").
"Th[u]a</u>n" (with an "a") is a word denoting comparison.

I only mention this to assist searches you might undertake. You won't find a match if you use "then" instead of "than."

This is very true. I have been seeing a lot of this lately where someone uses "then" when they mean "than", and vice versa.

Of course, that means that we have to search for both in case the person who has posted a solution is making the same error.

Then I'd rather use then than than when I mean then, then others will know the then I used then means then and not the than I didn't use then. But I'll use than when I mean than, then the than is better than then. That reminds me of that old wordplay about using that that that that that referred to...

Woody Z
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