In asp classic and vbscript, you can declare a Const with a hexidecial value, and a date type value:
Const C_LIGHTCYAN = &hCCFFEE
Const C_STARTDATE = #1 JAN 2000#
But how can I declare currency, single or doubles data types?
Const C_LONG = 1024 '# I want this to be a LONG, not an INT!
I'm sure I've seen something like Const C_LNG = L12345 or some other prefix/suffix combination for longs or doubles but can't find the source now
While you can't declare data types in Windows Scripting (VBScript, ASP), you can assign a variable to become a type, then verify that variable's type. VBScript provides no type protections, so you're allowed to reassign a declared variable to a different type. This loose typing strategy is one root of problems.
Dim textVariable : textVariable = "Hello World!"
WScript.Echo TypeName(textVariable)
' Returns Text
Dim integerVariable : integerVariable = 6
WScript.Echo TypeName(integerVariable)
' Returns Integer
Dim objectVariable : set objectVariable = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
WScript.Echo TypeName(objectVariable)
' Returns Object
Some types require some brute force and trickery. The binary datatype is one example.
Dim generateData(1) : generateData(0) = &HFF
Dim mem : Set mem = CreateObject("System.IO.MemoryStream")
mem.SetLength(0)
mem.WriteByte (generateData(0))
Dim byteArray : byteArray = mem.ToArray()
'Returns a VB Style, "Byte()" [Byte Array]
You can't declare variables with data types in ASP just set the value in decleration, that should work fingers crossed.
I don't think there is currency type anyway. For double you can 1.00 etc.
Here is the CLng function for VBScript. But since you can't declare use a function for a constant declaration, and you can't re-assign to a constant, do you really have to use constants here?
