Type Statement

Function:	Used to declare structures -- combinatorial data types that includes one or several member variables.
Syntax:	type type_name name1 [ (bounds1) ] as type [ (max_string_size) ] ... nameN [ (boundsN) ] as type [ (max_string_size) ] end type
Scope:	Global, HTML and local
See Also:	Dim Statement

Part	Description
type_name	Required. Specifies the name for this structure type (not a particular variable).
name[1, 2...]	Required. Specifies the name for the member variable.
bounds[1, 2...]	Optional. Specifies the boundary (finite size) of a dimension in an array. Several comma-delimited boundary values make a multi-dimensional array.
as	Required. Precedes the type definition.
type	Required. Specifies the type of the variable.
max_string_size	Optional (can be used only when type is string). Sets the maximum size for a string (default size is 255 bytes).
end type	Required. Closes type declaration.

Structures can include any number of members, and each member can be of any type. Any member can also be an array or another structure. Nesting of up to 8 levels is allowed (i.e. "array within a structure within a structure within and array" -- each structure or array is one level and up to 8 levels are possible).

Type...end type is only a declaration, not a variable definition! You still need to use a regular dim statement to define a variable of the type you have declared.

'declare new type

type my_struct

x as byte

y as Long

s as string(10)

end type

'define a variable of this type

dim my as my_struct