Different types of literals in visual basic

Question

What are literals and name the different types of literals in visual basic?

Answer 1

The literal is the textual representation of particular value of the type.

Different types of the literals in Visual Basic are as follows:

1. Nothing – It refers to the literal which does not have type and is convertible to all the types in a type system.

2. Integer Literals – It refers to the literals which can be octal (base 8), decimal (base 10) or hexadecimal (base 16), 

3. Floating-Point Literals – It refers to the integer literal followed by the optional decimal point.  By default, the floating-point literal is of type Double.

4. String Literals – It refers to the series of zero or more Unicode characters beginning and ending with the ASCII double-quote character.

5. Character Literals – It represents the single Unicode character of a Char type.

6. Date Literals – It represents time expressed as the value of a Date type.

7. Boolean Literals – It refers to a True and False literals which map to a true and false state, respectively.