DefLng

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DefLng
 
Specifies a default data type for a range of variable names

Syntax

DefLng start_letter[-end_letter ][, ...]

Parameters

start_letter
the first letter in the range
end_letter
the last letter in the range

Description

DefLng specifies that variables and arrays which aren't declared with a data type - or not declared at all - are implicitly declared of type Long if the first letter of their names matches a certain letter or lies within an inclusive range of letters.

Example

This will make lNumber a Long integer number since it starts with l.
'' Compile with -lang fblite or qb

#lang "fblite"

DefLng l
Dim lNumber ' implicit: As Long

Print Len(lNumber) ' Displays 4, the number of bytes in a long.


Dialect Differences

Differences from QB

  • None

See also