DefShort
Specifies a default data type for a range of variable names
Syntax
`
DefShort start_letter[-end_letter ][, ...]
`
Parameters
`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.
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
`
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.

See also

- `DefInt`
- `DefUShort`
- `Dim`
- `Integer`
- `Short`