Dim In VB

[PVJsquad]

Sorry previously annoying, I have a question, and it is as follows
what does it mean? or a difference of?

* Dim As Long
* Dim As Byte
* Dim As String
* Dim As Interger
* And many more

Please tell me  :cool:

[Robin]

It's called a variable. Google it.

[PVJsquad]

Oke thank's Robin

[evilbunnie]

Basically, dim tells the system to reserve space for a specific data type to be used later on in the program. So once dimmed it would hold a specific data type. So, integer would hold whole numbers, long is really just int32, meaning it's an integer that can hold more numbers than the former.

Byte holds whole numbers up to 255, used when you don't need to use as much memory as an integer would, in exchange for the inability to store numbers more than 255\. An integer or long is actually made up of bytes.

A string is just an array of characters, each character being a byte large, so I would use them carefully as doing intensive operations with strings is very memory consuming. This is a string, "Hello, this is a string". so using dim as the case, to use them you would do.
```
dim tmpStr as string
tmpStr = "Everything within the quotes is part of the string"

```
This is just a brief, so as Robin said I'd probably go and google them some more to understand better.

[Robin]

Why in God's name would you explain what a variable is?

[evilbunnie]

@Robin:

> Why in God's name would you explain what a variable is?

Wanted to let out all my emotions, after that 24 hours of straight torture you put me through.