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Set Variable Data Type Statement

The Set Variable Data Type statement sets the default data type for one or more variables.

Format

DefCur varTypeLetters
DefInt varTypeLetters
DefLng varTypeLetters
DefSng varTypeLetters
DefDbl varTypeLetters
DefStr varTypeLetters
DefVar varTypeLetters

The following table describes the arguments that you can use with this method.

Usage

The VarTypeLetters argument can be one of the following:

• Single letter
• List of letters that includes a comma to separate each letter
• Range of letters

For example, if you specify a-d, then Siebel VB uses letters a, b, c, and d.

The case of the letters is not important, even in a letter range. Siebel VB considers the a-z letter range as all alpha characters, including international characters.

The Deftype statement affects only the code where you specify it. It must precede any variable definition in the code.

To override the Deftype statement, you can use the Global statement or the Declare Variable statement to declare a variable, and then use an As clause or a type character.

For more information, see Variants.

Example

The following example determines the average of bowling scores that the user enters. Because the average variable begins with A, this example defines it as a single-precision, floating point number. It defines the other variables as integers:

DefInt c,s,t
DefSng a
Sub Button_Click
   Dim count
   Dim total
   Dim score
   Dim average
   Dim msgtext
   For count = 0 to 4
      score = 180
      total = total + score
   Next count
   average = total/count
   msgtext = "Your average is: " &average
End Sub

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Create Function Method
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