Language Constants

Constant	Example
The true value.	TRUE
The false value.	FALSE
Integer or Long numbers.	0, 123, -32769, 10000000000
Hexadecimal short signed integers.	&H1F5, &HFFFF, &H0000FFFF, &FFFF
Hexadecimal signed integers.	&H10BF332E, &10BF332E
Hexadecimal unsigned integers.	&H8000&, &HFFFF&
Binary integers.	&X1010010101, %101001011
Floating point numbers.	1.0, -5.345219E+45
Positive infinity	+INF
Negative infinity	-INF
String constants.	"Hello World !"
String constants to be translated.	("This software is cool")
Null constant / void string.	NULL

String escape characters

The string constants can contain the following escape characters:

Escape character	ASCII equivalent
\n	Chr$(13)
\r	Chr$(10)
\t	Chr$(9)
\b	Chr$(8)
\v	Chr$(11)
\f	Chr$(12)
\e	Chr$(27)
\0	Chr$(0)
\"	Double quote
\\	Backslash
\xNN	Chr$(&HNN)

Multi-line string constants

You can write a string constant in several successive parts, even on several different lines.

For example,

or

are absolutely the same constants as

See also