DefShortkeyword

Specifies a default data type for a range of variable names

Syntax

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

Parameters

Name		Description
`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.

Remarks

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.

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

Reference

Documented in KeyPgDefshort.html