DefStrkeyword

Specifies a default data type for a range of variable names

Syntax

DefStr start_letter[-end_letter ][, ...]

Parameters

Description

DefStr specifies that variables and arrays which aren't declared with a data type - or not declared at all - are implicitly declared of type String 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
  
• DefLng
  
• DefDbl
  
• Dim
  
• String
  
  

Example

This will make sMessage a String since it starts with s.

'' Compile with -lang fblite or qb



#lang "fblite"



DefStr s

Dim sMessage

Reference

• Documented in KeyPgDefstr.html