Syntax

Currency

Description

A data type used to declare variables capable of holding fixed-point numbers with 15 digits to the left of the decimal point and 4 digits to the right.

Comments

Currency variables are used to hold numbers within the following range:

 –922,337,203,685,477.5808 <= currency <= 922,337,203,685,477.5807

Due to their accuracy, Currency variables are useful within calculations involving money.

The type-declaration character for Currency is @.

Storage

Internally, currency values are 8-byte integers scaled by 10000. Thus, when appearing within a structure, currency values require 8 bytes of storage. When used with binary or random files, 8 bytes of storage are required.

See Also

Date (data type); Double (data type); Integer (data type); Long (data type); Object (data type); Single (data type); String (data type); Variant (data type); Boolean (data type); DefType (statement); CCur (function).

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