Predefined Constants

Datatypes

These constants are returned by TypeOf.

These constants are used by the Stat() function.

gb.NewLine	Newline character. Equivalent to `Chr$(10)`.
gb.Cr	Carriage return character. Equivalent to `Chr$(13)`. The line terminator on old Macintoshs.
gb.Lf	Linefeed character. Equivalent to `Chr$(10)`. The line terminator on Linux and co.
gb.CrLf	Carriage return followed by linefeed. The line terminator on Windows and network protocols such as HTTP.
gb.Tab	Tab character. Equivalent to `Chr$(9)`.

These constants are used by the comparison, search and sort methods. See Comparison methods for more details.

gb.Binary	Binary comparison (This is the default).
gb.IgnoreCase	ASCII case insensitive comparison.
gb.Language	Comparison according to the current language.
gb.Language + gb.IgnoreCase	Case insensitive comparison according to the current language.
gb.Natural	Natural comparison according to the current language.
gb.Natural + gb.IgnoreCase	Case insensitive natural comparison according to the current language.
gb.Like	The second string is assumed to be a LIKE pattern. If the first string matches it, then equality is returned. Otherwise a case insensitive comparison is done.
gb.Match	Since 3.11 The second string is assumed to be a gb.pcre MATCH pattern. If the first string matches it, then equality is returned. Otherwise a case insensitive comparison is done.

These constants define the order used by sort methods.

gb.Ascent	Ascending sort (this is the default).
gb.Descent	Descending sort.

These constant are the values returned by the WeekDay() function.

These constants are the time periods used by the DateAdd and DateDiff functions.

gb.GeneralNumber	Writes a number with twelve decimal digits. Uses scientific format if its absolute value is lower than 10^-4 or greater than 10⁷.
gb.Fixed	Equivalent to `"0.00"`
gb.Percent	Equivalent to `"###%"`
gb.Scientific	Write a number with its exponent and eighteen decimal digits.

gb.GeneralDate	Write the date and time using the general representation according to the current language. Writes nothing for a null date, a short time when there is no date, or date and time for all other cases. Since 3.1 Before Gambas 3.1, it wrote a date only if the date and time value has a date part, and write a time only if it has a date part. Since 3.16 Before Gambas 3.16, this format was just a concatenation of `gb.MediumDate` and `gb.LongTime`.
gb.LongDate	Long date format.
gb.MediumDate	Medium date format.
gb.ShortDate	Short date format.
gb.LongTime	Long time format.
gb.MediumTime	Medium time format.
gb.ShortTime	Short time format.

gb.Currency	Formats a currency by using the national currency symbol.
gb.International	Formats a currency by using the international currency symbol.

Use gb.GeneralNumber for formatting numbers and gb.MediumDate eventually followed by gb.LongTime for formatting dates and times.

gb.BigEndian	Big endianness. The values are stored in memory the higher bytes first.
gb.LittleEndian	Little endianness. The values are stored in memory the lower bytes first.