[PB] tabs and basic data types

POWERBULIDER allows you to use special ASCII characters in strings. font size (~) Special characters are introduced in POWEBULIDER. The following table lists how to introduce specified ASCII characters in PB.

String	Generated ASCII characters
~ N	Line feed
~ T	Tab
~ V	Vertical Tab
~ R	Enter
~ F	Page feed
~ B	Escape Character
~ "	Double quotation marks
~ '	Single quotes
~~	Generation character
~ 000-255	ASCII characters in decimal format
~ H01-HFF	ASCII characters in hexadecimal notation
'Oss-O377	ASCII characters in octal notation

The above characters are often used when you generate a display string for the message box or write the value to a file.

Continuous string: a continuous string (&) is used to extend the statement and string between multiple lines. You can put the string & at the end of a string without closing the quotation marks, and then extend the string to the next line.

Standard Data Type:

Data Type	Definition
BLOB	Large binary object used to store large amounts of data
BOOLEAN	TRUE Value, TRUE or FALSE
CHAR	Single ASCII character
DATE	Date, year, month, day
DATETIME	Merged from date to time
DECIMAL	The number of signed decimal digits with an accuracy of 18 digits
DOUBLE	15-Bit Signed floating point precision, 2.2E-308 to 1.7E + 308
INTEGER	16-bit signed number,-32768 to + 32767
LONG	32-bit signed number,-2147483648 to + 2147483647
REAL	6-Bit Signed floating point precision, from 1.17E-38 to 3.4E + 38
STRING	Any ASCII character.
TIME	24-hour format Time Value
Unit	16-bit unsigned count, 0 to 65535
Ulong	32-bit unsigned count, 0 to 4294967295

Data type conversion:

Function	Function
Char'	Converts blob, integer, and string to chat.
Dec	Convert string to decimal
Double	Convert string to double
Integer	Convert string to integer
Long	Convert string to long
Real	Convert string to real
Date	Obtain the date part of datetime
Datetime	Convert date and time To datetime
String	Convert blob, date, datetime, and time to string
Time	Obtain the time part of datetime