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Reference for unit 'System' (#rtl)

VarCast

Cast a variant to a certain type

Declaration

Source position: varianth.inc line 383

procedure VarCast(

var dest: variant;

const source: variant;

vartype: LongInt

);

Description

VarCast converts the variant in Source to the type indicated in VarType and returns the result in dest. The VarType must be one of the pre-defined VarNNN constants.

Errors

If the conversion is not possible because the value cannot be correctly casted, then a run-time error or an exception may occur.