Re: "Short" data type... where is it?

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From: Bob Butler (tiredofit_at_nospam.com)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 08:14:33 -0800

"okc.engineer" <okc.engineer@swbell.net> wrote in message
news:Wc%sd.37656$bP2.18056@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com
> I need to use a Short data type (defined in the help files as a two-
> byte integer), but VB doesn't recognize it and returns an error. It
> recognizes Long, but not short.
>
> I am not very good at VB programming, I don't do it very much, so
> something must be going over my head here. Any thoughts?

In VB an "Integer" is 2 bytes and a "Long" is 4 bytes. If you are seeing
"Short" then you are reading the help for VB.Net and that's a very different
language. If you are using VB.Net then you should ask questions in a
newsgroup with "dotnet" in the name. If you are using VB6 or earlier then
you need to use the VB documentation. 

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