Basic Data Types

Type

Description

Suffix
 

Size in bytes (sizeof)

Value range

Default Value

Examples / literals

typeof

Char

signed integer

c

1

–128 to 127, representing one ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII code is the numerical representation of a character such as 'a' or '@' or an action of some sort (e.g. Tab). character

'\x000'

'a' or 12c

"Char"

Byte

unsigned integer

uc

1

0 to 255 or 0xFF

0

10uc

"Byte"

Short

signed integer

n

2

–32,768 to 32,767

0

145n

"Short"

Bool

True or False

2

False (0) or True (<>0 or -1)

False

False

"Bool"

Word

unsigned integer

w

2

0 to 65,535 or 0xFFFF

0

23w

"Word"

WChar

signed integer

L

2

-32,768 to 32,767 representing one Unicode Computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. Each character is store in 2 bytes WChar type. character

0

'a'L 

"WChar"

Long

signed integer

l

4

–2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647

0

123 or 123l

"Long"

DLong
 (ATEasy v5)

8 byte signed integer

ld

8

-9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807(0x7fffffffffffffff)

0

256ld

"DLong"

DWord

unsigned integer

ul

4

0 to 4,294,967,295

0

123ul or 0xFA316

"DWord"

DDWord
 (ATEasy v5)

8 byte unsigned integer

uld

8

0 to 18446744073709551615(0xffffffffffffffff)

0

256uld

"DDWord"

Float

floating point

f

4

3.4E +/- 38 (7 digits). Magnitude range of +/- 1.2E -038.

0

3.56f or -3.4E-38f

"Float"

Double

floating point

optional letter 'd' 

8

1.7E +/- 308 (15 digits). Magnitude range of +/- 2.3E -308.

0

1.7E+308 or 3.56d

"Double"

Currency

fixed point

8

See Currency

"$0.00"

See Currency

"Currency"

DateTime

floating point

8

Jan 1, 100 to Dec 31, 9999 (date)
0:00:00 to 23:59:59 (time)

"12:00:00 AM"

See DateTime

"DateTime"

String

fixed or variable size ASCII  characters

4 (pointer to the buffer)

The defined ASCII character set

""

"Hello, World."

"String"

BString

fixed length Unicode string

L

4 (pointer to a buffer) See BString

The defined Unicode character set

""

"Hello, World."L

"BString"

Variant

See Variant

v

16, See Variant

Varies by data type

VarEmpty

"Variant"

Procedure

Procedure

4 (pointer)

N/A

NoProcedure

GetName

Object

Object

4 (pointer)

N/A

Nothing

obChart

Any

Pointer/Alias - See Any

4 (pointer), See Any

Varies by data type and data element

Null

"Any"