DefShort start_letter[-end_letter ][, ...]

start_letter
end_letter

DefShort specifies that variables and arrays which aren't declared with a data type - or not declared at all - are implicitly declared of type Short if the first letter of their names matches a certain letter or lies within an inclusive range of letters.

This will make sNumber a Short number since it's first letter starts with s.

'' Compile with -lang fblite or qb

#lang "fblite"

DefShort s
Dim sNumber

• Available in the -lang fblite dialect.
  
• Not available in the -lang qb dialect unless referenced with the alias __Defshort.
  
  

• New to FreeBASIC
  
• In QBasic, to make variables default to a 2 byte integer, DEFINT is used.
  
  

• DefInt
  
• DefUShort
  
• Dim
  
• Integer
  
• Short