DefDblkeyword

Specifies a default data type for a range of variable names

Syntax

DefDbl start_letter[-end_letter ][, ...]

Parameters

Description

DefDbl specifies that variables and arrays which aren't declared with a data type - or not declared at all - are implicitly declared of type Double if the first letter of their names matches a certain letter or lies within an inclusive range of letters.

Remarks

Dialect Differences

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

Differences from QB

• None
  
  

See also

• DefInt
  
• DefSng
  
• Dim
  
• Double
  
  

Example

This will make aNum a Double-precision decimal number since it is in the range of a-d:

'' Compile with -lang fblite or qb



#lang "fblite"



DefDbl a-d

Dim aNum 'implicit: As Double



Print Len(aNum) ' Prints 8, the number of bytes in a double.

Reference

• Documented in KeyPgDefdbl.html