Why does VB add a # on the end?

[wadey]

why does VB add # on to the end of this line? :-

dim lngVar as long

lngVar = 999999999999999#

Please do not tell me the number is to big for a long, because I already know this. I'm merely just curious what the # does in this situation

 

[sostek]

Might that be an overflow indicator?

 

[strongm]

No

 

[HughLerwill]

The # indicates that vb is going to treat the literal number "999999999999999" as if it were a Double.

 

[gmmastros]

The pound sign indicates that your value has a data type of Double.

For example...

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Dim lngVar As [!]Variant[/!]

lngVar = 999999999999999#

MsgBox TypeName(lngVar) & ": " & CStr(lngVar)
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