Re: positive integers

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 10-02-92 (07:05)             Number: 340
From: REUVEN LAX                   Refer#: NONE
  To: FRANCOIS ROY                  Recvd: NO  
Subj: Re: positive integers          Conf: (2) Quik_Bas

 -=> Quoting Francois Roy to Reuven Lax <=-

 FR> I'm afraid you're out of luck for the unsigned 2-byte integer (I'd
 FR> like to get that one too), but for the small numbers, you can use a
 FR> character string and the ASC() function.  The range is 0-255.  Very
 FR> handy to store a small value in a 1-byte field in a file...

 dim SmInt as string * 1

 SmInt = str$(NumUnder255)

 With the same idea I could write routines to handle numbers larger than
 QB can handle.  Qb gives you numbers up to 8 bytes.  With fixed length
 strings you can have numbers up to 32768 bytes long.

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