Data Type Conversion Functions

The following table lists the Visual Basic data type conversion functions.

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Function	Converts To
CBool	Boolean
CByte	Byte
CChar	Char
CDate	Date
CDbl	Double
CDec	Decimal
CInt	Integer
CLng	Long
CObj	Object
CSByte	SByte
CShort	Short
CSng	Single
CStr	String
CUInt	UInteger
CULng	ULong
CUShort	UShort

Remember that data types have their own parsing methods in addition to these data type conversion functions. For example, the following code converts the String variable a_string into an Integer value:

  an_integer = Integer.Parse(a_string) 

These methods are faster than the corresponding data type conversion function (in this case, CInt).