Mod Operator
You can find the remainder in Integer division by using the modulus operator (mod)
The Mod operator returns the remainder after division
8 Mod 3 = 2
This is extremely useful when you have a loop and you want to perform an action every nth times through a loop.
For icounter = 1 To 100
If icounter Mod 10 Then
'every tenth value
End If
Next icounter
This is similar to the integer division except it only returns the remainder
10 mod 3 = 1
This is actually equivalent to the following maths formula
a - (b * (a \ b))
a - (b * Fix(a / b))
You can also get overflow errors in VBA using the Mod operator with very large numbers. For example,
Public Sub Mod_Error()
Dim Number As Double
Dim Divisor As Double
Dim Result As Double
Number = 2 ^ 31
Divisor = 7
Result = Number Mod Divisor ' Overflow error here.
End Sub
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