A tag is stored with the variant data to identify the type of data that it currently . Specifies a 16-byte variable that can contain data of any scalar type, an array, a list, or an object. A variable that is declared without a . Explicit casts can be used to convert values to and from the VARIANT data type. For example, to convert a value to the VARIANT data type , use TO_VARIANT or . A data type used to declare variables that can hold one of many different types of data.
Note: You cannot declare anything as Integer or a Long data type with EZscript. The advantage of this is that it simplifies the expressions. So i have landed on the data type Variant which is essentially a pointer.
They no official data type in the OPC UA standard and are transmitted only with a. If the data type is unknown to the receiver, the variant contains the original . This is a tricky question. By my personal understanding, however . The following example uses an abstract data type Variant , which takes any number of data types as parameters. One of the parameters provided in the example . The actual datatype of a variant variable is determined at runtime. As long as a variant variable is unitizlie it is said to . The Variant datatype is widely used in the Component Object Model to represent variables with no explicitly defined type.