Parameter | Description |
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vValue | A Variant string |
eCharType | The type of string encoding, which may be OEM (CP_OEMCP), ANSI (CP_ACP) or UTF-8 (CP_UTF8) |
The string is converted to UTF-16 Unicode and returned as a DataFlex string
Function VariantStrToStr Variant vValue Integer eCharType Returns String
Call: | Get VariantStrToStr vValue eCharType to StringVariable |
VariantStrToStr creates an OEM, ANSI or UTF8 DataFlex string from a Variant String (the internal encoding of a Variant string is always Unicode).
See discussion in the cCharTranslate class overview about the advantages and disadvantage of using the Variant String type.
Use Windows.pkg Use cCharTranslate.pkg Object oCharTranslate is a cCharTranslate End_Object Procedure TestVariantStr Address aUTF8Buffer Variant vVar vVar2 String sVal Move "Test String-Ññóí" to vVar // Move Variant (utf-16) to DataFlex OEM string Get VariantStrToStr of oCharTranslate vVar CP_OEMCP to sVal // Move OEM string to variant (utf-16) Get VariantStrFromStr of oCharTranslate sVal CP_OEMCP to vVar2 If (vVar<>vVar2) Begin Send Info_Box "Test Failed" End End_Procedure Send TestVariantStrSee Also
VariantStrFromBuffer | VariantStrToBuffer | VariantStrFromStr | VariantStrFromUTF16 | VariantStrToUTF16