AS

• Source: https://www.freebasic.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=KeyPgAs
• Last revised: 2017-01-01

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Part of a declaration which specifies a data type, or part of the Open statement which specifies a file handle.

Syntax

symbolname As datatype

open ... As #filenumber
type ... As datatype

Description

As is used to declare the type of variables, fields or arguments and is also used in the Open statement to determine the file handle. As is also used with the Type (Alias) syntax, similar to C's typedef statement.

Examples

start GeSHi

'' don't try to compile this code, the examples are unrelated
Declare Sub mySub (X As Integer, Y As Single, Z As String)
' ...

Dim X As Integer
' ...

Type myType
  X As Integer
  Y As Single
  Z As String
End Type
' ...

Type TheNewType As myType
' ...

Open "test" For Input As #1
' ...

end GeSHi

Differences from QB

• The Type (Alias) syntax was not supported in QB.

See also

• Declare
• Dim
• Type
• Open

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