VB Script Data Types

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------------------------------------------------VB Script Data Types What is Data Type? Data type is a categorization of identifying one of various types of data, such as string, integer, double, date or Boolean etc…

Implicit & Explicit Data types: Specifying Data types along with variable names is called Explicit declaration of Data types. Declaring Variables Without specifying Data types is called Implicit declaration of  variables. VB Script Supports Implicit declaration of variables only, doesn’t support Explicit declaration of Data types.

VB Script Data Type: VB script has only data type called Variant, it can hold any type of data, and based on usage of data it considers data sub types. Example: Dim x X is a Variable and it can hold any type of data (String, integer, double, date etc…) X= “G C Reddy” ‘String Reddy” ‘String type X= 100 ‘Integer  X= 10.345 ‘Double

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How to know Data sub types: Using VarType Function we can get data sub type VarType Function It returns a value indicating a subtype of a Variable Example: 'Checking Data sub types ----------------------------Dim x, y, z(3) x="Gcreddy" Msgbox VarType(x) '8 for String x=500 Msgbox VarType(x) ' 2 for Integer  x="400" Msgbox VarType(x) '8 for String x=199.123 Msgbox VarType(x) '5 for double x="199.123" Msgbox VarType(x) '8 for string x=#10/10/2010# Msgbox VarType(x) '7 for date Set x =CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Msgbox VarType(x) '9 for Automation Object  x=384322225 Msgbox VarType(x) ‘3 for Long integer  Msgbox VarType(z) ‘8204 for Array  Msgbox VarType(y) '0 for Empty / Uninitialized -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Data sub type and descriptions: String: It consists of any type of characters, maximum length up to approximately 2 billion characters. Boolean:

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www.gcreddy.com It Contains either True or False (Logical Result) Empty: Uninitialized, Value is 0 for numeric variables or a zero-length string ("") for string variables. Integer: Contains integer in the range -32,768 to 32,767 Long Integer Contains integer in the range -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647 Double: Contains a double-precision, floating-point number in the range -1.79769313486232E308 to -4.94065645841247E-324 for negative values; 4.94065645841247E-324 to 1.79769313486232E308 for positive values. Date: Contains a number that represents a date between January 1, 100 to December 31, 9999 Object: Contains an object Error: Contains an error number Null: Contains no valid data Etc… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

'Converting the Data from one type to another ----------------------------------------------We use Conversion Functions to convert the data from one type to another. Whenever we read data using input devices, or from files, or from Databases or from Application objects then VB Script considers the data as string type data, we need to convert the data in order to perform operations. Dim x, y, Tickets, Price 'Read from Input Devices x=InputBox("Enter a Value") Msgbox VarType(x) '8 for String

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www.gcreddy.com x=Cint(x) Msgbox VarType(x) '2 for Integer y=InputBox("Enter a Value") Msgbox VarType(y) '8 for String y=Cdbl(y) Msgbox VarType(y) '5 for double 'Read from Application Objects Tickets = Window("Flight Reservation").WinEdit("Tickets:").GetVisibleText() Reservation").WinEdit("Tickets:").GetVisibleText() Msgbox VarType(Tickets)'8 VarType(Tickets)'8 Tickets=Cint(Tickets) Msgbox VarType(Tickets) '2 Price = Window("Flight Reservation").WinEdit("Price:").GetVisibleText() Reservation").WinEdit("Price:").GetVisibleText() Msgbox VarType(Price) '8 Price=Cdbl(Price) Msgbox VarType(Price) '5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------Example: 2 Dim a, b, c a=”100”  Msgbox VarType(a) ‘ 8 for String a=Cint(a) Msgbox VarType(a) ‘2 for Integer b=”100.345”  Msgbox VarType(b) ‘ 8 for String b=Cdbl(b) Msgbox VarType(b) ‘5 for Double c=”Hyderabad”  Msgbox VarType(c) ‘8 for String c=Cint(c) Msgbox VarType(c) ‘Mismatch (Error) Note: we can’t convert alphabets as integer or double type data Thanks G C Reddy

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