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You can use the Type statement to define your own data types. This must be done before declaring procedures - user-defined data types are always globally valid. The user-defined variables can be declared locally or globally.

Note: The use of arrays in user-defined types is not allowed. Furthermore, user-defined variable types cannot be passed to DLLs that expect C structures.

Type Person

 LastName As String

 FirstName As String

 Gender As String*1     ' ("m" or "f")

 Birthday As String

End Type

Variables of this type can be created like other variables with Dim or Static . The individual elements can be accessed with the point notation Variable.element (see also With statement).

Dim p As Person

p.LastName = "Smith"