re: Variants and arrays

[Clifton Mayo <cmayo@ti.com>]

>  Is there some longer discussion of variants anywhere in the Builder
>  documentation?
>  
>  Apparently I need a variant array in order to Locate a record by more
>  than one field. And apparently variant arrays bear no resemblance to C
>  arrays. They are declared, filled, and used in a Pascal like manner.
>  
>  I've looked at the example supplied in help under TVariant and managed to
>  get 2 small portions of it to work for me. 

I am not sure what you are talking about and I could not find anything about
TVariant, but there is a TVarRec in the help.  In Pascal, I have often used
variant records (in C known as unions) to do bit ands and ors or to set fields
of a variable (known in Pascal as packing).  FWIW -- Clifton