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 Characters, Types, and Symbols
 
 ■ The Visual Basic character set includes:
   • Alphabetic characters (A-Z, a-z)
   • Numeric characters (0-9 and A-F or a-f for hexadecimal numbers)
   • Special characters
 
 ■ Some characters represent data types, mathematical operators, or have
   other special meanings:
 
   Grouping             Symbol   Description
   ══════════════════   ══════   ═══════════════════════════════════════════
   Data type suffixes   %        Integer (2-byte)
                        &        Long-integer (4-byte)
                        !        Single-precision (4-byte floating-point)
                        #        Double-precision (8-byte floating-point)
                        $        String
                        @        Currency (8-byte signed integer)
   Mathematical         +        Addition
   operators            -        Subtraction
                        *        Multiplication
                        /        Division
                        \        Integer division
                        ^        Exponentiation
                        .        Decimal point
                        =        Relational or assignment operator
                        >        Greater than
                        <        Less than
   Special meanings     '        Denotes the beginning of a comment line
                        ;        Controls output from PRINT and INPUT
                        ,        Controls output from PRINT and INPUT
                        :        Separates multiple statements on one line
                        ?        Denotes a prompt for INPUT (only during
                                 program execution)
                        _        Denotes a line continuation; not allowed
                                 when creating programs in the Visual Basic
                                 programming environment (VBDOS.EXE)