As

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As

Part of a declaration which specifies a data type, or part of the Open statement which specifies a file handle.

Syntax

symbolname As datatype
Open ... As #filenumber
Type ... As datatype

Description

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

Remarks

Differences from QB

• The Type (Alias) syntax was not supported in QB.

See also

• Declare
• Dim
• Type
• Open

Examples

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

Declare Sub mySub (X As Integer, Y As Single, Z As String)

' ...

Dim X As Integer

' ...

Type myType

  X As Integer

  Y As Single

  Z As String

End Type

' ...

Type TheNewType As myType

' ...

Open "test" For Input As #1

' ...

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