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Subj : Re: How do you tell what type a TVariant holds
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp,borland.public.cppbuilder.activex,borland.public.cppbuilder.vcl.components.writing
From : Remy Lebeau \(TeamB\)
Date : Thu Jul 01 2004 01:36 am


"Dean Mitchell" <not@this.address> wrote in message
news:40e3af0e@newsgroups.borland.com...

> I was hoping someone could tell me how to tell
> what type of data is help within a TVariant

TVariant is a wrapper for the VARIANT structure.  VARIANT has a vt member
for that exact purpose.  The value is a bitmask containing information about
the contained data type and any flags that indicate how to access it
properly.


Gambit

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