Only if you need to carry out a string assignment or operation on it
somewhere.
You can also use the as operator i.e. with X as Y do begin
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Jeremy Coulter
> Sent: Tuesday, 31 October 2000 09:27
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: [DUG]: Any Advantage ?
>
>
> Hi all.
>
> Just a general question really. I have an OLE Variant that is being passed
> from an app to an OCX.
>
> I am treating this OLEVariant as a string, so is there in
> advantage is going
> :-
>
> *****************
> var
> myVariable : string;
> begin
> myVariable := String(OLEVariant_Variable) ; //Cast as a string
> end;
> *****************
>
> Cheers, Jeremy Coulter
>
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