DefShort
 
Specifies a default data type for a range of variable names

Syntax

DefShort start_letter[-end_letter ][, ...]

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.

Example

This will make sNumber a Short number since its first letter starts with s.
'' Compile with -lang fblite or qb

#lang "fblite"

DefShort s
Dim sNumber


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