You declare a variable to be of a particular type, which restricts the kind of value the variable can hold (except for variables of type Variant). You also determine the scope and lifetime of a variable — when and how long the variable exists and in what parts of your application it is accessible. Typically, if you do not choose a type or scope for the variable, LotusScript chooses by default.

A variable name can be any valid LotusScript identifier. The name cannot be the same as the name of another variable, constant, or procedure in the same scope used in the same module.

A variable can be of any of the following data types or structures:

• The scalar types that LotusScript recognizes: Boolean, Byte, Integer, Long, Single, Double, Currency, or String
• An array or a list
• A Variant
• A user-defined data type, that is, a type defined with a Type...End Type statement
• A class defined with a Class...End Class statement, or a class defined by the Lotus software with which LotusScript is running

See Also

Data Types, Constants, and Variables
Declaring scalar variables explicitly
Declaring scalar variables implicitly
Dim statement
Environ function
Let statement
LSet statement
Identifier construction rules
Option Declare statement
RSet statement
Set statement

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