Data Type

Select the column's data type (Native PRO/5 or typedef) by clicking on the appropriate item.

After the data type is selected, the list box below displays the defined types for the given group. (In Visual PRO/5 2.0, the maximum size for Integer and Unsigned Integer fields has been expanded from 4 to 6 bytes.)

PRO/5 Data Type

Description

Character string

Default data type.

Numeric

Free-format numbers.

Integer

Stored in fixed-length field of 1 to 6 bytes.

Unsigned integer

Similar to Integer, but values are always interpreted as positive numbers.

IEEE float

Industry-standard floating point format (8 bytes).

BCD float

Binary Coded Decimal representation.

Business math

Stored in fixed-length field of 8 bytes.

C float

Standard single precision floating point format for the current machine.

C double

Standard double precision floating point format for the current machine.