[Gambas-user] casting or changing datatype.

[johnf]

Actually I'm trying to figure a way to write a function that I pass a string 
to and have it return a result datatype with the name of the string that I 
passed.

John
On Friday 13 January 2006 20:42, nando wrote:
> I believe that you are looking for is Variant
>
> Public Function myResult (thestr as String) as Variant
>
> if thestr = "Hello" then Return 0          'This is a integer
> if thestr = "Bye"   then Return "Daytime"  'This is a String
> if thestr = "PI"    then Return 13.14159   'This is floating
>
> END
>
> -Fernando
>
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: johnf <jfabiani at ...1109...>
> To: gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net
> Sent: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:10:09 -0800
> Subject: [Gambas-user] casting or changing datatype.
>
> > Hi,
> > I wonder if it is possible to pass a string to a method and have the
> > string used to for the name of a different datatype.
> >
> > dim passStr As String
> >
> > passStr = "custData"
> > myresult(passStr)
> >
> > public sub myResult( thestr as String) as Result
> >
> > dim thestr as Result
> >
> > return Result
> > end
> >
> > John
> >
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