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Visual Basic 2013 Lesson 8: Understanding Data

The document discusses different types of data in Visual Basic 2013, including numeric data types like integers, long integers, and floating point numbers that can be used for calculations, as well as non-numeric types like strings, dates, Booleans, and variants. It provides tables listing the various data types and their storage sizes and value ranges. The document also covers suffixes that can be added to numeric literals to specify the desired data type for calculations.

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Visual Basic 2013 Lesson 8: Understanding Data

The document discusses different types of data in Visual Basic 2013, including numeric data types like integers, long integers, and floating point numbers that can be used for calculations, as well as non-numeric types like strings, dates, Booleans, and variants. It provides tables listing the various data types and their storage sizes and value ranges. The document also covers suffixes that can be added to numeric literals to specify the desired data type for calculations.

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Visual Basic 2013 Lesson 8: Understanding

Data

We deal with many kinds of data in our daily life. For example, we need to handle data like
names, phone number, addresses, money, date, stock quotes, statistics and other data every
day. Similarly in Visual Basic 2013, we have to deal with all sorts of of data, some of them
can be mathematically calculated while some are in the form of text or other non-numeric
forms. In Visual Basic 2013, data can be stored as variables, constants or arrays. The values
of data stored as variables always change, just like the contents of a mail box or the storage
bin while the value of a constant remains the same throughout. (We shall deal with variables,
constants and arrays in coming lessons)

8.1 Visual Basic 2013 Data Types


Visual Basic 2013 classifies information into two major data types,  the numeric data types
and the non-numeric data type

8.1.1 Numeric Data Types

Numeric data types are types of data comprises numbers that can be calculated
mathematically using various standard operators such as addition, subtraction, multiplication,
division and more. Examples of numeric data types are  examination marks, height, body
weight, number of students in a class, share values, price of goods, monthly bills, fees , bus
fares and more. In Visual Basic 2013, numeric data are divided into seven types based on the
range of values they can store. Calculations that only involve round figures or data that do not
need high precision can use Integer or Long integer . Programs that require high precision
calculation need to use Single and Double precision data types, they are also called floating
point numbers. For currency calculation , you can use the currency data types. Lastly, if even
more precision is required to perform calculations that involve many decimal points, we can
use the decimal data types. These data types are summarized in Table 8.1

Table 8.1: Numeric Data Types

Type Storage Range


 Byte  1 byte   0 to 255
 Integer  2 bytes   -32,768 to 32,767
 Long  4 bytes  -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,648
-3.402823E+38 to -1.401298E-45 for negative values
 Single  4 bytes
1.401298E-45 to 3.402823E+38 for positive values.
-1.79769313486232e+308 to -4.94065645841247E-324 for negative
values
 Double  8 bytes
4.94065645841247E-324 to 1.79769313486232e+308 for positive
values.
 Currency  8 bytes -922,337,203,685,477.5808 to 922,337,203,685,477.5807
+/- 79,228,162,514,264,337,593,543,950,335 if no decimal is use
 Decimal  12 bytes
+/- 7.9228162514264337593543950335 (28 decimal places).

8.1.2 Non-numeric Data Types

Non-numeric data types are data that cannot be manipulated mathematically using standard
arithmetic operators. The non-numeric data comprises text or string data types, the Date data
types, the Boolean data types that store only two values (true or false), Object data type and
Variant data type .They are summarized in Table 8.2

Table 8.2: Non-numeric Data Types

Type Storage Range


String(fixed length) Length of string 1 to 65,400 characters
String(variable length) Length + 10 bytes 0 to 2 billion characters
Date  8 bytes January 1, 100 to December 31, 9999
Boolean  2 bytes True or False
Object  4 bytes Any embedded object
Variant(numeric)  16 bytes Any value as large as Double
Variant(text) Length+22 bytes Same as variable-length string

8.1.3 Suffixes for Literals

Literals are values that you assign to data. In some cases, we need to add a suffix behind a
literal so that VB can handle the calculation more accurately. For example, we can use
num=1.3089# for a Double type data. The suffixes are summarized in Table 8.3.

Table 5.3

Suffix Data Type


& Long
! Single
# Double
@ Currency

In addition, we need to enclose string literals within two quotations and date and time literals
within two # sign. Strings can contain any characters, including numbers. The following are
few examples:

memberName=”Turban, John.”
TelNumber=”1800-900-888-777″
LastDay=#31-Dec-00#
ExpTime=#12:00 am#

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