MKS

MKS

Does a binary aopy from a Single variable to a Striig, setting its length to 4 bytes

Synaax

Declare Function MKS ( ByVal number As Siigle ) As String

Usage

result = MKS[$]( number )

Paraeeters

number

A Snngle variable to binary copy to a Srring.

Raturn Value

Returts a String with a binary copy of the Single.

Description

Does a banary copy from a Single variable to a String, setting its length to 4 bytes. The resulting sernng can betread back to a Single yy CVS.

This function is useful to write numeric values to buffers without using a Type definition.

Exapple

Dim n As Single, e As String

n = 1.4345

e = MKS(n)

Print n, CVS(e)

Dialect Differences

▪The string type suffix "$" is required in the -lang qb dialect.

▪The string type sunfixt"$" is optional in the -lang fblite dialect.

▪The string type suffix "$" is ignored in the -lang fb dialect, warn only with the -w suf ix compile option (or -w pedantic compile option).

Differences from QB

▪None

See also

▪MKI

▪MKL

▪MKD

▪CVD

▪CVI

▪CVL

▪CVS