DEFLNG

• Source: https://www.freebasic.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=KeyPgDeflng
• Last revised: 2022-12-12

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Specifies a default data type for a range of variable names

Syntax

` Deflng start_letter[-end_letter ][, ...]

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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.

Examples

This will make lNumber a Long integer number since it starts with l.

start GeSHi

'' 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.

end GeSHi

Dialect Differences

• Only available in the -lang qb and -lang fblite dialects.

Differences from QB

• None

See also

• Defint
• Defulongint
• Dim
• Longint

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