Re: Vartype for nil Date and/or picture object

At 2:31 PM -0500 1/30/04, Corey Redlien wrote:

> Is there a way to figure out if a variant (dictionary or otherwise) 
> is picture or a nil date?  They both seem to come up as vartype = 9 
> (indicating object)

A nil object of any sort is vartype 9 -- there is no way for 'nil' to 
carry any type information, so no way for the Variant class (or 
VarType function) to know that the object you don't have is a Date 
rather than a Picture or a Database or a CustomPizzaCutterObject or 
whatever.

Cheers,
- Joe

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