short keyword in C#
Keywords are the words in a language that are used for some internal process or represent some predefined actions. short is a keyword that is used to declare a variable which can store a signed integer value from the range -32, 768 to 32, 767. It is an alias of System.Int16.
Syntax:
short variable_name = value;
short keyword occupies 2 bytes (16 bits) space in the memory.
Example:
Input: num: 2 Output: num: 2 Size of a short variable: 2 Input: num = 20200 Output: num: 20200 Type of num: System.Int16 Size of a short variable: 2
Example 1:
// C# program for short keyword using System; using System.Text; class Prog { static void Main( string [] args) { // variable declaration short num = 2; // to print value Console.WriteLine( "num: " + num); // to print size Console.WriteLine( "Size of a short variable: " + sizeof ( short )); } } |
Output:
num: 2 Size of a short variable: 2
Example 2:
// C# program for short keyword using System; using System.Text; namespace Test { class Prog { static void Main( string [] args) { // variable declaration short num = 20200; // to print value Console.WriteLine( "num: " + num); // to print type of variable Console.WriteLine( "Type of num: " + num.GetType()); // to print size Console.WriteLine( "Size of a short variable: " + sizeof ( short )); // to print minimum & maximum value of short Console.WriteLine( "Min value of short: " + short .MinValue); Console.WriteLine( "Max value of short: " + short .MaxValue); // hit ENTER to exit Console.ReadLine(); } } } |
Output:
num: 20200 Type of num: System.Int16 Size of a short variable: 2 Min value of short: -32768 Max value of short: 32767
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