LotusScript for Visual Basic Programmers - IBM Redbooks

Both LotusScript and Visual Basic provide a statement which, when entered
in the general declarations sections of the code, will force the developer to
explicitly declare the type of data of a variable when declared. The
LotusScript equivalent of Visual Basic’s Option Explicit is Option Declare,
which forces the developer to declare all variables before they are used.
Data Type LS VB Suffix Storage Size Range Notes
Byte X none 1 byte 0 to 255
Integer X X % 2 bytes -32,768 to 37,767
Long (long integer) X X & 4 bytes -2,147,483,648 to
Short integer (2
2,147,483,647
byte whole
number). In
32-bit Windows,
VB4 represents an
int with a 4 byte
number.
Single (floating point) X X ! 4 bytes -3.402823E38 to
-1.401298E-45 or negative
values; 1.401298E-45 to
3.402823E38 for positive
values.
Double (floating X X # 8 bytes -1.79769313486232E308 to
point)
-4.94065645841247E-324 for
negative values;
4.94065645841247E-324 to
1.79769313486232E308 for
positive values.
Currency (scaled X X @ 8 bytes -922,337,203,685,477.5808
integer)
to 922,337,203,685,477.5807.
String X X $ 2 bytes per 10 bytes + string length 0 to
character*
approximately 2
billion
(approximately
65,400 for
Microsoft
Windows version
3.1 and earlier)
Variant X X none 16 bytes
user-defined X X none As
determined
by its
elements
Date X none 8 bytes January 1, 100 to December
31, 9999
Boolean X n/a 2 bytes True or False
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