DEFSHORT

• Source: https://www.freebasic.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=KeyPgDefshort
• Last revised: 2016-02-10

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Specifies a default data type for a range of variable names

Syntax

` Defshort 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

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.

Examples

This will make sNumber a Short number since its first letter starts with s.

start GeSHi

'' Compile with -lang fblite or qb

#lang "fblite"

DefShort s
Dim sNumber

end GeSHi

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

• Defint
• Defushort
• Dim
• Integer
• Short

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