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| 1 | | - | A shortint is a signed integer in the range of -128 to 127. The shortint is 8 bits long. |
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| 3 | | - | The [[Byte]] type is 8 bits long, too. But the byte datatype is an unsigned type, meaning that it encodes numbers from 0 to 255. |
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| 5 | | - | ``` pascal |
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| 7 | | - | var |
| 8 | | - | a_shortint: shortint; |
| 9 | | - | a_byte : byte; |
| 10 | | - | s1, s2 : string; |
| 11 | | - | begin |
| 12 | | - | a_shortint := %11110001; // binary number |
| 13 | | - | a_byte := %11110001; |
| 14 | | - | s1 := IntToStr(a_shortint); // s1 = '-15' |
| 15 | | - | s2 := IntToStr(a_byte); // s2 = '241' |
| 16 | | - | ``` |
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| 18 | | - | ## See also |
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| 20 | | - | - [[Not|function OnesComplement2]] |
| 21 | | - | - [[Smallint]] is integer type supporting values from -32768 to 32767 |
| 22 | | - | - [[Binary numeral system|binary numbers]] |
| 23 | | - | - [[IntToStr]] convert an integer into a string |
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| 25 | | - | --- |
| 26 | | - | *From the Free Pascal wiki, page "ShortInt", as it stood on 2023-12-22 after a change by Alextpp, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).* |
| 1 | + | #REDIRECT [[ShortInt]] |
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