[Gambas-user] Issue 176 in gambas: problems with SizeOf()

[tobias]

On 29.12.2011 18:41, tommyline at ...2340... wrote:
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> Comment #1 on issue 176 by benoit.m... at ...626...: problems with SizeOf()
> http://code.google.com/p/gambas/issues/detail?id=176
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> Have you read the documentation of SizeOf?
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> Yes, it says that
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> "Size = SizeOf ( Datatype ) - Returns the memory used for storing a specific datatype." and "Datatype can be any of the listed. So I assume that I can do with a as integer ->  a=SizeOf(f as float) or a=SizeOf(s as string), and "a" should return the length of the datatype in bytes. Or am I wrong?
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> Regards
> Tomek.
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yes, you are. there are integer constants for those datatypes...
so SizeOf(gb.Float) will return the desired value.
the list lines up there?