title: How to get the string from an address specified by a long in VB
body: <p>In vba, There is an address held by a long type which points to a null-terminated string, but I can't find a way to get the string from this address:</p>
  
  <pre><code>long str_address = ...
  string str = ?
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Would you please shed some light on this?</p>