DefShort
Specifies a default data type for a range of variable names
DefShort start_letter[-end_letter ][, ...]
start_letter
DefShort specifies that variables and arrays which aren't declared with a data type - or not declared at all - are implicitly declared of type Short if the first letter of their names matches a certain letter or lies within an inclusive range of letters.
This will make sNumber a Short number since its first letter starts with s.
Syntax
DefShort start_letter[-end_letter ][, ...]
Parameters
start_letter
the first letter in the range
end_letterthe last letter in the range
Description
DefShort specifies that variables and arrays which aren't declared with a data type - or not declared at all - are implicitly declared of type Short if the first letter of their names matches a certain letter or lies within an inclusive range of letters.
Example
This will make sNumber a Short number since its first letter starts with s.
'' Compile with -lang fblite or qb
#lang "fblite"
DefShort s
Dim sNumber
#lang "fblite"
DefShort s
Dim sNumber
Dialect Differences
- Available in the -lang fblite dialect.
- Not available in the -lang qb dialect unless referenced with the alias __Defshort.
Differences from QB
- New to FreeBASIC
- In QBasic, to make variables default to a 2 byte integer, DEFINT is used.
See also