Byte Class

An 8-bit (1 byte) signed integer. Its value can range from -128 to 127.

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This data type can be used either with a Declare statement or within REALbasic. Within REALbasic, it is an alias for Int8.

REALbasic offers both signed and unsigned integer data types that use one, two, four, or eight bytes of memory. The following table summaries these data types.

Data TypeNumber of BytesRange
Int8 or Byte 1 -128 to 127
Int16 2 -32,768 to 32,767
Int32 or Integer -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647
Int64 8 -2^63 to 2^63-1
UInt8 1 0 to 255
UInt16 2 0 to 65535
UInt32 0 to 4,294,967,295
UInt64 8 0 to 2^64-1


See Also

Declare statement; CFStringRef, CString, OSType, PString, Ptr, Short, UByte, UShort, WindowPtr, WString data types.