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Reference for unit 'Variants' (#rtl)

VarAsType

Attempt to cast a variant to another type

Declaration

Source position: variants.pp line 69

function VarAsType(

const V: Variant;

aVarType: tvartype

):Variant;

VarAsType attempts to cast the variant V to a new variant of type aVarType and returns the new variant.

If the requested type cast is not supported or possible, an EVariantTypeCastError exception may be raised.

EVariantTypeCastError		Error raised when an invalid typecast is performed
VarIsType		Check if a variant is of certain type
VarAsType		Attempt to cast a variant to another type