> > Here's the result, showing the number of times each phrase ending with a bang (that's an exclamation point) appears in the original.
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> So since you typed out the (that's an exclamation point) part, what exactly was the purpose of calling it something else in the first place?

Since you ask, I typed "bang" not so much with a purpose as a lack of attention on my part.
I had MSAccess open because I was discussing a VBA syntax point by email. Part of my friend's question was about the difference between rst!FieldName and rst("FieldName") and I'd typed the word "bang" several times in my emails. I was reading the Rinkworks message board while waiting for his reply.
I guess I explained the "bang" rather than just substituting "exclamation point" because I'd been in an explaining state of mind.

For what it's worth, I think I was wrong to call it a bang in the first place, because in the post to which I was replying the "!" was being used as punctuation rather than VBA syntax.

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