<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>This may be a simple, perhaps silly question!</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Is there some short form way of identifying a literal number as a long?</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>If I put the following into my code:</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>dim a as variant = 1 ' this will always be a integer</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>dim a as variant = clong(1) ' this will be a long.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>So is there a short form, like for hex value or so?</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>something like:</div><div>Dim a as variant = 1L ' this would be a long</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Maybe I just don't see this in the documentation?</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div data-marker="__SIG_PRE__">"Failure is the key to success; <br> each mistake teaches us something" .. Morihei Ueshiba<br>Brian G</div></div></body></html>