Agilent Technologies E5071C Manual page 1310

Variables declared as the string data type (String) are not case-
•
sensitive. For variables of the string type that indicate
arguments (written as Param in the syntax), you can omit
lower-case letters.
The data types of the E5071C COM objects include 5 types as shown in the
following table. Before using variables, declare the data type of each
variable. If you do not declare the data type of a variable, it is
automatically processed as a variant type.
Data Name
type
Long Long
integer
type
Double Double
precision
floating
point type
Boolean Boolean
type
String
Character
string type
Variant Variant
type
Examples
Examples provides a sample example of using the object through coding
with the E5071C VBA.
Related Objects
Related objects provides information about other objects that are
similar/related with the object.
Equivalent Key
Consumed
memory
4 bytes
8 bytes
2 bytes
1 byte /
alphanumeric
character
16 bytes
Programming
Range
-2,147,483,648 to
2,147,483,647
For a negative value:
-1.79769313486232E+308
to -4.94065645841247E-
324
For a positive value:
-1.79769313486232E+308
to -4.94065645841247E-
324
For COM: True or False
(For SCPI: ON or OFF)
Up to approximately 2
billion characters
No limitation
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