Declare Function MKShort ( ByVal number As Short ) As String

result = MKShort[$](number)

number

Returns a String with a binary copy of the Short.

Does a binary copy from a SHORT variable to a string, setting its length to 2 bytes. The resulting string can be read back to a Short by CVShort

This function is useful to write numeric values to buffers without using a Type definition.

Dim a As Short, b As String
a = 4534
b = MKShort(a)
Print a, CVShort(b)
Sleep

• Not available in the -lang qb dialect unless referenced with the alias __Mkshort.
  
  

• In QBasic this function is called MKI.
  
  

• CVShort