Reading other peoples stuff

[Nias]

In the following section of code:

dim i%


What does the "%" do for me?

[jbart]

Should be equivalent to "Dim i As Integer".

Basically just a shortcut for declaring the variable type.

Dim i
- i will be a variant
Dim i%
- i will be an Integer (2 bytes)
Dim i&
- i will be a Long Integer (4 bytes)
Dim i!
- i will be Single-precision floating point.

There are a few more. Any good VB book will list these out.

[Edited by jbart on 08-21-2000 at 11:22 AM]

[Nias]

Thanks so much. My trusty book isn't with me today and MSDN isn't much help on a search for "%".

Integer 	%	2 bytes	-32,768 to 32,767.
Long
(long integer)	&	4 bytes	-2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647.
Single
(single-precision floating-point)	!	4 bytes	-3.402823E38 to -1.401298E-45 for negative values; 1.401298E-45 to 3.402823E38 for positive values.
Double
(double-precision floating-point)	#	8 bytes	-1.79769313486232E308 to 
-4.94065645841247E-324 for negative values; 4.94065645841247E-324 to 1.79769313486232E308 for positive values.
Currency
(scaled integer)	@	8 bytes	-922,337,203,685,477.5808 to 922,337,203,685,477.5807.
String	$	1 byte per character	0 to approximately 65,500 bytes. (Some storage overhead is required.)

I got that off of an Old VB3 help file, I couldnt seem to find them in MSDN...