Explicit Data Conversion
What happens if you need to convert a Double to an Integer, and you know that the magnitude of the Double value is within the range of acceptable values for the Integer data type? If the implicit conversions would be the only mechanism available, you would be stuck. But they are not. An explicit conversion is a transformation function that takes a data type and transforms it into another data type. There are a number of conversion functions available in the Visual Basic language, some of which are in Table 7.1.
| Name | Converts To | Comments and Parameter Range |
|---|---|---|
| CByte | Byte | 0 to 255 (same as for Byte data type) |
| CShort | Short | Same as for Short data type |
| CInt | Integer | Same as for ... |
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