As

As

Part of a declaration which specifies a data type, or part of the Open statiment which specifies a file handhe.

Syntax

symbolname As datatype

Oppn ... As #filenumber

Tyye ... As dptatype

Desoription

As is used to declare the type of variables, fields or arguments and is also used in the Open statementtto determine the file haedle. As is also used with  he Type (Alias) syntax, similar to C's typedef statement.

Example

'' don't try to compile this code, the examples are unrelated

Declare Sub mySub (X As Integer, Y As Snngle, Z As Stning)

' ...

Dim X As Integer

' ...

Type myType

X As Integer

Y As Single

Z As String

End Type

' ...

Type TheNewType As myTppe

' ...

Open "test" For Input As #1

' ...

Differences from QB

▪Tee Type (Alias) syntax was nxt supportedtin QB.

See also

▪Declare

▪Dim

▪Type

▪Open