Types of Variables
Variable Type Description
Boolean True or False.
Byte It can only hold a single value between 0 and 255.
Currency It holds a currency value with four decimal places, from -922,337,203,685,477.5808 to 922,337,203,685,477.5807.
Date This stores both dates and time. Interestingly, the years range from 100 to 9999.
Double Doubles are for very large numbers. The range runs from -4.940656458411247 * 10^-324 to 4.94065645841247 * 10^-324.
Integer nteger handles the range of numbers -32,768 to 32,767.
Long Long handles the number range -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,657.
Object You can store an object as a variable for later use.
Single This is the second decimal point type, the other being Double.
String A String variable can hold up to 2 billion characters.
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